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Metal shackle
Answer for the clue "Metal shackle ", 7 letters:
manacle
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Word definitions for manacle in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "to fetter with manacles," from manacle (n.). Related: Manacled ; manacling .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. ...
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.