hamshackle
English
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To tie (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the forelegs.
- (transitive) To bind or restrain; to impose restrictions upon.
Etymology
Compound from English ham (actor of low grade, region back of the knee joint, overacting inferior performer, incompetent pugilist) + English shackle (rattle, shake).
Origin
English
shackle
Gloss
rattle, shake
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- butter-ham English
- enshackle English
- ham English
- ham-fisted English
- hambeast English
- hambone English
- hamese English
- hamfat English
- hamfest English
- hamlike English
- hammy English
- hamstring English
- shackle English
- shackleless English
- shackler English
- shackly English
- shake English
- unshackle English
- sjakkel Norwegian Bokmål
- ハム Japanese
- sjakkel Norwegian Nynorsk
- hamme Middle English
- schakkyl Middle English
- schakle Middle English
- แฮม Thai
- ham Cebuano
- 햄 Korean
- jakōļ Marshallese
- sagol Tok Pisin