title: Shackle (disambiguation)
text: # Shackle (disambiguation)
  
  A shackle is a device used as a connecting link in rigging systems.
  
  Shackle or Shackles may also refer to:
  
  ## Objects and measures
  
  * Certain restraint devices, such as handcuffs, legcuffs or thumbcuffs
  * As part of a land vehicle, a shackle is a link connecting a leaf spring to the frame
  * A nautical unit used for measuring the lengths of the cables and chains (especially anchor chains), equal to 15 fathoms, 90 feet or 27.432 meters.
  * USS Shackle (ARS-9), an American ship
  
  ## Art and entertainment
  
  * "Shackles (Praise You)", a song by Mary Mary
  * Shackles (film), a 2005 film
  * Shackles or Shakles, the English translation title for the Indonesian novel Belenggu by Armijn Pane
  
  ## People with the name
  
  * Christopher Shackle (born 1942), English philologist
  * G. L. S. Shackle (1903–1992), English economist
  * Maud Shackle, English tennis player
  * Thomas Shackle, English cricketer
  * Thomas Shackle (cricketer, born 1834), English cricketer
  