hamshackle

English edit

Etymology edit

Verb edit

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.
- 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 edit

“hamshackle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.