shackle

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Singulier	Pluriel
shackle \ˈʃækl\	shackles \ˈʃæklz\

shackle \ˈʃækl\

Entrave.
(Sens figuré) (Au pluriel) Entraves.
- The workers must release themselves from the shackles of capitalism.
Pièce métallique en forme de U.
1. (Police) Menottes.
2. (Mécanique) Manille.
(Marine) Maillon, dans le sens « longueur de chaîne entre deux manilles »^[1].

shackle \ˈʃækl\

Entraver, enchaîner, menotter.
- Al of the American appellate tribunals disapprove the practice of shackling prisoners and quote Blackstone, Hale and Coke to support their opinion. — (Elijah Nathaniel Zoline, Federal Criminal Law and Procedure, chapitre XXX (« Conduct of Troal Judge »), section §290 (« Shackling a Prisoner in Court »), page 235. Little, Brown and Company, 1921.)
- They had me tied to the wall during the day and chained to the bed at night. I had to beg to go to the toilet. I was shackled to the bed one way all night. — (United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, Detention: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary (...) on Allegations of Serious Abuses and Misconduct in the Detention of Juveniles in Institutions Maintained in the Oklahoma Department of Human Services, page 8. United States Government Printing Office, 1983.)
- The Australian political blogger and novelist, Yang Hengjun, is being shackled in chains and interrogated inside a Beijing detention centre, and told by authorities he could face the death penalty for espionage. — (Ben Doherty et Lily Kuo, « Yang Hengjun: detained blogger is being shackled in chains and interrogated ». Theguardian.com, 27 septembre 2019.)