hamshackle
verbEtymology
From ham + shackle.
Definitions
To tie (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the forelegs.
- to hamshackle a horse or cow
To bind or restrain
To bind or restrain; to impose restrictions upon.
- Not only are our sources, indicating the pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton, limited, but we are also hamshackled by certain time constraints.
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