Definition of "shackling" []

• Present participle of shackle. (verb)

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• "In twenty years time, the idea of shackling oneself to a desk and squinting at a screen to read the NYT will seem laughably quaint and rather sad."
• "And we think that the shackling was a vexatious act."
• "It is to the novelist's credit that he preserves a degree of sympathy for those whom poverty pushes towards piracy, as well as for the teenagers who are brainwashed into jihadism and whose fate, should they refuse to take orders, may entail shackling and torture."