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hamshackle HAM-shak-uhl verb to bind; to fasten; to hinder 1824Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth CenturyAnd then to oppose him downright—he could not but think on the way his poor mother was removed. Would to Heaven he was yoked to some tight piece of business, no matter whether well or ill paid, but some job that would hamshackle him at least until the courts rose, if it were but for decency's sake.'Labels: Sir Walter Scott
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