What's the difference between shackle and shackly?
Shackle
Definition:
(n.) Stubble.
(n.) Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter.
(n.) Hence, that which checks or prevents free action.
(n.) A fetterlike band worn as an ornament.
(n.) A link or loop, as in a chain, fitted with a movable bolt, so that the parts can be separated, or the loop removed; a clevis.
(n.) A link for connecting railroad cars; -- called also drawlink, draglink, etc.
(n.) The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple.
(v. t.) To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain.
(v. t.) Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action; to impede; to cumber.
(v. t.) To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars.
Example Sentences:
(1) They will demand that the shackles be taken off local authorities so they can tackle a homelessness crisis.
(2) Shackles were found in the cellar, and yesterday police found a trap door.
(3) Shackling and ‘a full strip search’ On the morning of 21 October 2013, LaTonia Wilson was pulling out of her mechanic’s garage with her husband, Atheris Mann; her eldest son, Jessie Patrick; and their two-year-old son Marquise.
(4) How Chicago police used pot to disappear young people at Homan Square Read more Davis, a Democrat who represents the neighborhood that includes the Homan Square site, had until Wednesday only said publicly that he would “strongly support” a federal inquiry into what 11 detainees – in strikingly similar detailed accounts provided to the Guardian – have described as extended interrogation without access to legal counsel or their families, often while shackled.
(5) On this evidence, the shackles, in place ever since that World Cup in France, finally appear to be off.
(6) It is modern slavery enforced not through shackles and whips, but by fiddled contracts, missing permits and paperwork and the Guardian has found it happening just down the road from the desert palace of Qatar’s emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Khalifa al-Thani.
(7) Mané, in particular, has become erratic, while Tadic has suffered from the fact that opponents have studied him after his sparkling start to the campaign and increased their efforts to shackle him, partially by curtailing the ability of Southampton’s flying full-backs to support him down the flanks.
(8) Military policy Victory on Sunday will boost attempts by Abe and his fellow conservatives to further loosen the political shackles on Japan’s self-defence forces – actually a highly trained, well-equipped army, navy and air force.
(9) The NHS has experienced numerous attempts to free staff from the shackles of unnecessary paperwork to allow more time for patient care.
(10) The blindfold, shackles, threats and beatings were just the white noise of his ordeal, he says.
(11) Second, its shackled to historicism, constantly looking to the past.
(12) We face the prospect of a week of party manifestos full of reckless promises unbelieved by electors yet shackling future chancellors.
(13) It is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and I can now fight for America the way I want to,” he tweeted .
(14) I would love to see the selection criteria for that job.’” Facebook Twitter Pinterest From a blindfolded boat ride to threats against his family members and hours shackled to Gitmo floors, Zuley’s interrogation of Mohamedou Ould Slahi shocked investigators.
(15) "He was not only able to break the shackles of bigotry and bias and hate, but he did it without internalising the battles he was fighting."
(16) In March, Gambian president Yahya Jammeh announced plans to throw off the shackles of the colonial past by discontinuing the use of English as an official language .
(17) Sir Edward Leigh, a former minister, said breaking up the coalition would be one way of showing fed-up Conservative voters that Cameron was serious about addressing their concerns, instead of being shackled to the Liberal Democrats .
(18) But even allowing for that fact, and the long-known departure of Lampard, this will undoubtedly be a summer of upheaval for last season’s champions, not least with Uefa looking increasingly likely to loosen the shackles of financial fair play.
(19) Not only are their pay and rations fixed centrally but their revenue is shackled.
(20) When she fled the violence of Honduras and settled with relatives in Atlanta, Gutiérrez, 31, met regularly with immigration officials and wore an electronic ankle shackle, so they could track her.
Shackly
Definition:
(a.) Shaky; rickety.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Without the money to begin building permanent homes, residents of Barkobot are living in temporary tin shacks.
(2) Nan had gone away for a weekend Prayathon and Mack had taken Katie and Missy to a shack in Oregon.
(3) There are wild beaches for those prepared to tote their own supplies, but most have a shack selling drinks, ice-creams and snacks.
(4) OK, so it wouldn't beat London's MeatLiquor in a fight, but it'd certainly knock seven shades out of Shake Shack and Five Guys with both hands tied behind its back.
(5) Depictions of them by the likes of the Daily Mail as destitute Roma, desperate to leave shacks in the shanty towns of Sofia, are denounced as discriminatory and ill-informed.
(6) "The government did not fund the empower shack, though they helped us speed up the approval process," said Andy Bolnick, founder of iKhayalami , the NGO that built the shack in Khayelitsha township.
(7) Back then, as is now the case, Germany was governed by a “grand coalition”: the two biggest parties, the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats, had shacked up.
(8) Brilliant young author rails against the "phony" nature of modern life but, unlike many before him, does not eventually sell out and conform but puts his money where his mouth is and moves out to the proverbial shack in the woods to pursue his vision.
(9) Dozens more were injured, robbed and driven from their shacks at Bitter Creek.
(10) An old worker, laid off on the eve of retirement, reluctantly opens a love shack for illicit couples.
(11) He had a seaside shack with one bedroom containing a solid silver four-poster bed.
(12) Some signs breathed – there were cats in baskets, rats and parrots in cages, vultures tethered to wine shacks, and so on, often with bells around their necks.
(13) Momepele currently lives in a shack in the eNsimbini settlement in Chesterville, near Durban.
(14) He and the other new arrivals were put up in a derelict shack, with plywood walls, a tin roof and no fan to ease the humid air.
(15) We walked past field after field of strawberries, and clusters of wooden shacks.
(16) When ships dock here from Antarctica and when daytrippers return after retracing Darwin’s trip across the Beagle Channel a surprising high proportion of passengers utter the same words: “Let’s go to the Irish pub!” The Dublin is no carbon copy from the motherland; instead it has a distinct local look – a shack-like structure, corrugated frontage (green, of course) and small-paned windows.
(17) Blocking-out involves the local people who demolish the old clutter of shacks and rebuild them.
(18) Three Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 (PLCs) were used to capture and transfer the charting by phone into the hospital information system (HIS).
(19) Under a pink mosquito dome in a shack among the filthy alleyways of sector two of the Malakal protection of civilians (PoC) camp lies 11-day-old Pul.
(20) Their children and grandchildren still live in these shacks, held together with salvaged tin and timber.