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English
Etymology
From be- + shackle.
Pronunciation
Verb
beshackle (third-person singular simple present beshackles, present participle beshackling, simple past and past participle beshackled)
- (transitive, uncommon, archaic) To shackle.
1599, Thomas Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, , London: N.L.; C. B., page 50:Who this king ſhould bee, beſhackled theyr wits,and layd them a dry ground euery one.
1704, “An Ironical Encomium on the unparallel'd Proceedings of the Incomparable Couple of Whiggiſh Walloons”, in Poems on Affairs of State, from 1640, to This Present Year 1704, volume III, pages 167-168:Shall guilded Chains beſhackle you with Fears ?
1997 May, Meredith Maran, “Scenes from a Femenist Childhood”, in Notes from An Incomplete Revolution: Real Life Since Feminism, Bantam Books, page 202:Suddenly applause explodes around me. I look up from where I’m crouched in the street and see that Peter, Jesse, and I are surrounded by a circle of gay men. Bare-chested and beshackled; sequined and polo-shirted; mustached and mascara’ed—thirty or forty men are clapping and beaming down at Peter, Jesse, and me.