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Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter. His shackles empty left; himself escaped clean. Spenser.…

stem or handle of an arrow or a spear; a long, slender part, especially when cylindrical. Specifically:

which connects the acting part with a handle or other part, by which it is held or moved. Specifically:

That which shapes; a machine for giving a particular form or outline to an object. Specifically;

To make sharp. Specifically:

The act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor.

Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four. The sheaf of arrows shook and rattled in the case. Dryden.

A cutting instrument. Specifically:

Any sheathlike covering, organ, or part. Specifically:

That which sheathes. Specifically:

, as paper, cloth, etc.; a broad, thin portion of any substance; an expanded superficies. Specifically:

A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal. Specifically:

The act of shifting. Specifically:

That which shines. Specifically:

Specifically, a vessel furnished with a bowsprit and three masts (a mainmast, a foremast, and a mizzenmast), each of which is composed of a lower mast, a topmast, and a topgallant mast, and square-rigged on all masts. See Illustation in Appendix. l Port or Larboard Side; s Starboard Side; 1 Roundhouse or Deck House; 2…

Cloth, specifically cotton cloth, suitable for making shirts.

A thin piece or fragment; specifically, one of the scales or pieces of the woody part of flax removed by the operation of breaking.

Anything resembling a shoe in form, position, or use. Specifically:

That which shoots. Specifically:

A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting.