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shackled, ppl. a.|ˈʃæk(ə)ld|
[f. shackle n.1 + -ed1.]
Wearing or bound in shackles.
c1440Promp. Parv. 443/2 Schakklyd, numellatus. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 185 We wrestle alone: And shall, tyll tyme our shakled breeches be gone. 1600Maids Metam. v. i, Hee's as good a footeman as a shackled sow. 1671Woodhead St. Teresa i. xxxv. 259 To make them, who fly like eagles..to walk no faster than a shackled Hen. 1842Longfellow Witnesses i, With shackled feet and hands. 1861Dickens Gt. Expect. liv, The hunted wounded shackled creature.
b. transf. and fig.
1837Whittier Lines Celebr. 3rd Anniv. Brit. Emancip. 14 The shackled soul and hand are free. 1894E. Lee-Hamilton Sonn. Wingless Hours 22 Let not this shackled body drag thee down Into that stagnant sea.
†c. shackled-ham'd = shackle-hammed s.v. shackle n.1 11. Obs.
1733W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farm. 112 A Colt, who is check'd by being work'd too soon, will be shackled-ham'd, stunted, and complain ever after. |