Stubble.

To chain; to fetter; to tie or confine the limbs so as to prevent free motion. So the stretch’d cord the shackled dancer tries, As prone to fall as impotent to rise. Smith.

To bind or confine so as to obstruct or embarrass action. You must not shackle him with the rules about indifferent matter.

Fetters, gyves, handcuffs, cords or something else that confines the limbs so as to restrain the use of them, or prevent free motion.

That which obstructs or embarrasses free action. His very will seems to be in bonds and shackles. South.