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3. A fetterlike band worn as an ornament.
Most of the men and women . . . had all earrings made of gold, and gold shackles about their legs
and arms. Dampier. 4. 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.
5. A link for connecting railroad cars; — called also drawlink, draglink, etc.
6. The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple. Knight.
Shackle joint (Anat.), a joint formed by a bony ring passing through a hole in a bone, as at the bases
of spines in some fishes.
Shackle
(Shac"kle) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shackled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shackling.]
1. To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain.
To lead him shackled, and exposed to scorn
Of gathering crowds, the Britons' boasted chief. J. Philips. 2. Figuratively: To bind or confine so as to prevent or embarrass action; to impede; to cumber.
Shackled by her devotion to the king, she seldom could pursue that object. Walpole. 3. To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars. [U. S.]
Shackle bar, the coupling between a locomotive and its tender. [U.S.] — Shackle bolt, a shackle.
Sir W. Scott.
Shacklock
(Shack"lock`) n. A sort of shackle. [Obs.]
Shackly
(Shack"ly), a. Shaky; rickety. [Colloq. U. S.]
Shad
(Shad) n. sing. & pl. [AS. sceadda a kind of fish, akin to Prov. G. schade; cf. Ir. & Gael. sgadan
a herring, W. ysgadan herrings; all perhaps akin to E. skate a fish.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several species
of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and
ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or
alose (C. alosa), and the twaite shad. are less important species. [Written also chad.]
The name is loosely applied, also, to several other fishes, as the gizzard shad called also mud shad,
white-eyed shad, and winter shad.
Hardboaded, or Yellow-tailed, shad, the menhaden. — Hickory, or Tailor, shad, the mattowacca.
— Long-boned shad, one of several species of important food fishes of the Bermudas and the West
Indies, of the genus Gerres. — Shad bush (Bot.), a name given to the North American shrubs or
small trees of the rosaceous genus Amelanchier (A. Canadensis, and A. alnifolia) Their white racemose
blossoms open in April or May, when the shad appear, and the edible berries (pomes) ripen in June or
July, whence they are called Juneberries. The plant is also called service tree, and Juneberry. —
Shad frog, an American spotted frog (Rana halecina); - - so called because it usually appears at the
time when the shad begin to run in the rivers. — Trout shad, the squeteague. — White shad, the
common shad.
Shadbird
(Shad"bird`) n. (Zoöl.) (a) The American, or Wilson's, snipe. See under Snipe. So called
because it appears at the same time as the shad. (b) The common European sandpiper. [Prov. Eng.]
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