Manacle
['mænək(ə)l]
Definition
(verb.) confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs; 'The police handcuffed the suspect at the scene of the crime'.
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Definition
(n.) A handcuff; a shackle for the hand or wrist; -- usually in the plural.
(v. t.) 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.
Editor: Ronda
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Shackle (for the hands), handcuff, hand-fetter.
v. a. [1]. Handcuff.[2]. Shackle, fetter, tie, restrain, confine.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Shackle, hand-cuff, fetter, chain
ANT:Unbind, unfetter, unchain
Edited by Bernice
Definition
n. a handcuff.—v.t. to put manacles on: to restrain the use of the limbs or any of the natural powers.
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Examples
- You have shown yourself a mighty fighter, and we do not wish to manacle you, so we hold you both in the easiest way that will yet ensure security. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- He stretched out to me his other hand; I discerned the trace of manacles on his bared wrist. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Examining the manacles I saw that they fastened with a massive spring lock. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- He sank with a deep groan on the settee and buried his face in his manacled hands. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was taken on board, and instantly manacled at the wrists and ankles. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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