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English
Etymology
From ham + shackle.
Verb
hamshackle (third-person singular simple present hamshackles, present participle hamshackling, simple past and past participle hamshackled)
- (transitive) To tie (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the forelegs.
- to hamshackle a horse or cow
- (transitive, figurative) To bind or restrain; to impose restrictions upon.
- Synonyms: curtail, repress; see also Thesaurus:curb
2010, Steven Ortlepp, Introduction to the Interlinear Bible, page 180:Not only are our sources, indicating the pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton, limited, but we are also hamshackled by certain time constraints.
References
“hamshackle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.