Usually means: Restrict, bind, or disable something.
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  1. hamshackle: Collins English Dictionary
  2. hamshackle: Wordnik
  3. hamshackle: Wiktionary
  4. Hamshackle: Dictionary.com
  5. Hamshackle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. hamshackle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Hamshackle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. Hamshackle: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  9. hamshackle: FreeDictionary.org
  10. hamshackle: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  11. hamshackle: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (hamshackle)

verb:  (transitive) To tie (an animal) by a rope binding the head to one of the forelegs.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To bind or restrain; to impose restrictions upon.

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