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Definition of Shackling
1. shackle [v] - See also: shackle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shackling
Literary usage of Shackling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Short History of the Kingdom of Ireland from the Earliest Times to the by Charles George Walpole (1882)
"... CHAPTER I. THE Shackling OF THE ENGLISH COLONY. AD 1700-1719. DISFRANCHISED,
disinherited, disabled from exercising the most ordinary civil functions, ..."
2. Some Truths of History: A Vindication of the South Against the Encyclopedia by Thaddeus K. Oglesby (1903)
"... THE Shackling OF JEFFERSON DAVIS. [Read before the Atlanta Camp of Confederate
Veterans, at the Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia, March 20, 1899. ..."
3. A Prisoner of the Khaleefa: Twelve Yearsʹ Captivity at Omdurman by Charles Neufeld (1899)
"The shackling completed, I was taken to a room measuring about thirty feet each
way, but having a pillar about four feet wide to support the roof, ..."
4. A Prisoner of the Khaleefa: Twelve Years' Captivity at Omdurman by Charles Neufeld (1899)
"The shackling completed, I was taken to a room measuring about thirty feet each
way, but having a pillar about four feet wide to support the roof, ..."
5. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1888)
"He had received a general warning from Phil- brick to be careful, and was specially
warned of the danger in reference to shackling passenger-cars. ..."
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