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Webster 1913 Edition

Hamshackle

Ham′shacˊkle

(hăm′shăkˊ’l)

,

Verb.

T.

[

Ham

+

shackle

.]

To fasten (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the fore legs;

as, to

hamshackle

a horse or cow

; hence, to bind or restrain; to curb.