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manacle
[ man-uh-kuhl ]
noun
- a shackle for the hand; handcuff.
- Usually manacles. restraints; checks.
verb (used with object)
- to handcuff; fetter.
- to hamper; restrain:
He was manacled by his inhibitions.
manacle
/ ˈ³¾Ã¦²ÔÉ™°ìÉ™±ô /
noun
- usually plural a shackle, handcuff, or fetter, used to secure the hands of a prisoner, convict, etc
verb
- to put manacles on
- to confine or constrain
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- ³Ü²Ô·³¾²¹²Ôa·³¦±ô±ð»å adjective
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of manacle1
Example Sentences
“We’ll get you fixed up, Phillip,†Jack said softly as he carefully sliced through the prince’s manacles with the witch’s knife.
Its brutal tools were whips, manacles, and floating prisons called slave ships.
He set his hands on her shoulders, and she expected him to shove her forward into waiting manacles.
Initially modeled in plaster and later cast in bronze, “The Freedman†portrays a formerly enslaved man clad in a loincloth, his left arm in manacles, his right breaking free from the chains of bondage.
"And at the height of slavery, there were no white-seeming people manacled on the slave ships."
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