All 4 Uses of
shackle
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- You'll say I walked across Africa with my wrists unshackled, and now I am one more soul walking free in a white skin, wearing some thread of the stolen goods: cotton or diamonds, freedom at the very least, prosperity.†
Chpt 1unshackled = removed restraintsstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unshackled means not and reverses the meaning of shackled. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Hundreds of political prisoners, shackled.†
Chpt 5 *shackled = restrained
- At least he isn't shackled under the stadium floor, Elisabet keeps saying, and I suppose even my broken heart can accept that as good fortune.†
Chpt 5
- If chained is where you have been, your arms will always bear marks of the shackles.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
to restrain freedom; or a device used to restrain freedom such as metal rings used to chain wrists or ankles to each other