beshackle
verbUK /biˈʃækl̩/ · US /biˈʃæk(ə)l/
Etymology From be- + shackle.
- Who this king ſhould bee, beſhackled theyr wits,and layd them a dry ground euery one.1599, Thomas Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] N.L.; C. B., page 50:
- Shall guilded Chains beſhackle you with Fears ?1704, “An Ironical Encomium on the unparallel'd Proceedings of the Incomparable Couple of Whiggiſh Walloons”, in Poems on Affairs of State, from 1640, to This Present Year 1704, volume III, pages 167-168:
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- Suddenly applause explodes around me. I look up from where I’m crouched in the street and see that Peter, Jesse, and I are surrounded by a circle of gay men. Bare-chested and beshackled; sequined and polo-shirted; mustached and mascara’ed—thirty or forty men are clapping and beaming down at Peter, Jesse, and me.1997 May 23, Meredith Maran, “Scenes from a Femenist Childhood”, in Notes from An Incomplete Revolution: Real Life Since Feminism, Bantam Books, page 202: