0 present participle of shackle --
1 If you are shackled by something, it prevents you from doing what you want to do: --
I refer to the proposal for more industrial relations legislation—a euphemism for a further shackling of the trade unions.
This poor old country of ours is in no condition to put up with such hampering and shackling treatment.
We have been shackling the things that people have done.
We must beware of shackling the freedom of such an independent body.
It means setting the private builder free and shackling the corporations and preventing them from building as much as quickly and efficiently as they can.
We had to train them to stand quietly in all weathers and get them used to the shackling rope on their heels.
I was told that was a most iniquitous proposal, shackling the independence and discretion of the local authority, and could not be entertained.
I cite by way of recent example the shackling of women in labour.
