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Manacle
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: noun (n.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
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.