shacklehammedt (shaklhamd)

Bowlegged. Hall i well. his head was holden uppe A brave dapper Dicke,. so pert, and his legges shackle - ham'd, as if his knees had beene laced to his thighes with points. Greene, Quip for Upstart Courtier (Harl. Misc., V. 403). shackle-jack (shak'l-jak), n. An implement used to attach the thills of a vehicle to the shackle on the axle when a box of india-rubber is used to prevent rattling. shackle-joint (shak'l-joint), n. A joint involving the principle of the shackle. Specifically, in an at., a kind of articulation, found in the exoskeleton of some fishes, formed by the pa ing of a bony ring of one part through a perforation of another part, the two being thus movably linked together. Shackle-joint of a large spine with a bony plate of The spines of some Teleostei present us with a peculiar kind of articulation-a shackle - joint , the base of a spine forming a the skin of a siluroid fish. ring which pa es through another ring developed from an o icle supporting it. Mivart, Elem. Anat., p. 277.