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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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