hamshackling

Verb

hamshackle (third-person singular simple present hamshackles, present participle hamshackling, simple past and past participle hamshackled)

1. (transitive) To tie (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the forelegs.
   • to hamshackle a horse or cow
2. (figuratively, transitive) To bind or restrain; to impose restrictions upon.
   • Not only are our sources, indicating the pronunciation of the Tetragrammaton, limited, but we are also hamshackled by certain time constraints.2010, Steven Ortlepp, Introduction to the Interlinear Bible, page 180

   Synonyms:

   curtail, repress, behedge, guard, govern, smother, bind, chasten, choke back, check