An archaic Scottish dialectal term for the wrist — the joint connecting hand and forearm. The 'shackle' component evokes the bone around which a shackle (manacle) would be fastened. Used in older Scottish medical, anatomical, and dialectal writing.
She wrapped a cloth tight around his shackle-bone to slow the bleeding.
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(Scotland, archaic) The wrist.
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