Crossword clues for manacle
manacle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manacle \Man"a*cle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Manacled; p. pr. & vb. n. Manacling.] 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.
Manacle \Man"a*cle\, n. [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.] 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "a fetter for the hand," from Old French manicle "manacles, handcuffs; bracelet; armor for the hands," from Latin manicula "handle," literally "little hand," diminutive of manicae "long sleeves of a tunic, gloves; armlets, gauntlets; handcuffs, manacles," from manus "hand" (see manual (adj.)). Related: Manacles.\n\nIn every cry of every man,\n
In every infant's cry of fear,\n
In every voice, in every ban,\n
The mind-forged manacles I hear\n
[Blake, "Songs of Experience"]
\n\nc.1300, "to fetter with manacles," from manacle (n.). Related: Manacled; manacling.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A shackle, consisting of a pair of joined rings, to restrict the free movement of the hands or feet. 2 Any similar device such as a fetter or handcuffs. vb. To confine with manacles.
WordNet
Usage examples of "manacle".
Dragging him to the wall opposite Alec, they manacled him hand and foot.
Kyle, his face twisted in pain, manacled her hands behind her back then shoved her roughly on to the couchette beside Graham.
Hudson was manacled, Mike took the gun from Coy and marched his prisoner from the room.
She smirked at him as she seductively raised her manacled hands upward, coyly brushing her breasts, only to throw her hair over one shoulder.
The inset held the picture of the Domina while the main scene changed to a close-in view of a set of manacles bolted to metal floorplates.
Waits will be manacled and under the watchful eyes of the detectives and Deputy Doolan, with the shotgun.
The Escapist was laid, lashed and manacled, in the paths of threshing machines, pagan juggernauts, tidal waves, and swarms of giant prehistoric bees revived by the evil science of the Iron Chain.
That afternoon Fal Sivas was in his laboratory, and I was working in the shops with the poor manacled artisans.
An unmounted figure emerged from the forest to the west, an ancient sword girded at its side and the chain of a manacle dangling from its wrist.
Chapter 6 Chains rattling and manacles digging into his ankles, Atretes was forced down off the wagon just inside the gates of the ludus of Capua.
Drain the life out of them, watch tans blanch, hear screams dwindle to swoons as they swung limp and bloodless from their manacles: all prelude to a suck-and-blow multifucked frenzy with Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail.
The third Indian managed to manacle Mysterioso and escape with a beautiful woman.
We were brought in manacled and hooded, and the only one who sees us is a mute eunuch who is absolutely loyal to Oary the Usurper.
Manacled to the wall, Lucie Paillard hung unconscious from her chains, no longer fresh-scrubbed, no longer clean, no longer pretty.
Albert Popjoy, embarrassed at the attention, took the key from his pocket and unlocked the manacle around his wrist, placing the set within his coat pocket.