Hamshackle

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To tie (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the forelegs. transitive

    "to hamshackle a horse or cow"

  2. 2
    To bind or restrain; to impose restrictions upon. figuratively, transitive

    "Not only are our sources, indicating the pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton, limited, but we are also hamshackled by certain time constraints."

Synonyms

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behedgebindburychastencheckcontain

Example

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"Not only are our sources, indicating the pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton, limited, but we are also hamshackled by certain time constraints."

Etymology

From ham + shackle.

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