All 4 Uses of
shackle
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- They waited on the porch for a full twenty minutes, Clumly fanning himself with his hat, Boyle standing meekly with his shackled hands folded.†
Chpt 1 *shackled = restrained
- He indicated with both shackled hands the heavy bronze knocker on the Woodworths' door, a lion's head holding a serpent in its teeth.†
Chpt 1
- The old man had tried from the beginning to shackle them.†
Chpt 5
- So once old Paxton had tried to shackle Kathleen, but they had outwitted him, healthy love overwhelming sick, if only for the moment.†
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