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Manacled

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.

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manacled

vb. (en-past of: manacle)

Usage examples of "manacled".

I was thrilled to have been stripped, and gagged and hooded, and manacled, and put in neck coffle, by the will of men.

I, on my knees, my hands manacled behind me, had begged prettily for them.

Surely it was not typical that they were treated to the attentions which we enjoyed, being gagged, hooded, neck chained, manacled and caged.

Perhaps that I was here, naked in a sales barn, my wrists manacled over my head, being bid upon by strangers, was part of his vengeance on me.

Indeed, the first question he had addressed to me in this house, when he had unroped the blanket from about me, and I was before him, naked, my wrists manacled behind my back, was whether or not I was "white silk.

Had I not been I think he might then, even as I was, manacled and on the blanket, have put me to his purposes.

Then he took me and thrust me on my back on the furs and, as he had before, when we had first come to the alcove, manacled my hands at the sides of my head.

My manacled hands were then tied at my belly, the center of the tie fastened to the linkage, the ends of the tie knotted together, behind my back.

So I struggled ahead, closed in the hood, manacled, harnessed, drawing the weighty raft through the marsh, through the rence, through the mud, now with several men upon it, some wounded and sick, little more, if anything, than a beast of burden, a despised beast subject to the frequent blows, the lashings, of an impatient, hostile master.

In the morning, after I had been again gagged and hooded, my hands would be again manacled before me, and fastened there with a strap, that my back might be more available for blows.

I then withdrew my manacled hands from his neck and head and withdrew his dagger from his belt.

In a few Ehn we were naked, manacled, hand and foot, chained by the neck in a coffle.

The large Oriental fellow pulled my hands, manacled behind my back, toward him.

The girls chained and manacled in various positions within and to this framework, sometimes compellingly attractive positions, are then visible.

My hands, each, were manacled to the wall, too, on short chains, to my left and right.