MANACLE

handcuff, cuff, handlock, manacle

(noun) shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs

manacle, cuff, handcuff

(verb) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs; “The police handcuffed the suspect at the scene of the crime”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

manacle (plural manacles)

A shackle for the wrist, usually consisting of a pair of joined rings; a handcuff; (by extension) a similar device put around an ankle to restrict free movement.

(figuratively) A fetter, a restriction.

Usage notes

Often used in the plural form manacles, and as such a plurale tantum.

Verb

manacle (third-person singular simple present manacles, present participle manacling, simple past and past participle manacled)

(ambitransitive) To confine with manacles.

Anagrams

• Alcmena, MacLean, Maclean, laceman

Source: Wiktionary


Man"a*cle, n. Etym: [OE. manicle, OF. manicle, F. manicle sort glove, manacle, L. manicula a little hand, dim. of manus hand; cf. L. manica sleeve, manacle, fr.manus. See Manual.]

Definition: A handcuff; a shackle for the hand or wrist; -- usually in the plural. Doctrine unto fools is as fetters on the feet, and like manacles on the right hand. Ecclus. xxi. 19.

Man"a*cle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Manacled; p. pr. & vb. n. Manacling.]

Definition: To put handcuffs or other fastening upon, for confining the hands; to shackle; to confine; to restrain from the use of the limbs or natural powers. Is it thus you use this monarch, to manacle and shackle him hand and foot Arbuthnot.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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