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Definition manacle

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English manacle, manakelle, manakil, manakyll, manicle, manikil, manycle, manykil, manykle, from Anglo-Norman manicle, manichle (“gauntlet; handle of a plough; (in plural) manacles”), and Middle French manicle, Old French manicle (“armlet; gauntlet; (in plural) manacles”) (modern French manicle, manique (“gauntlet”)), from Latin manicula (“handle of a plough; manacle”), from manus (“hand”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh?- (“to beckon, signal”)) + -cula (from -culus, variant of -ulus (suffix forming diminutive nouns)).

The verb is probably derived from the noun, although according to the Oxford English Dictionary it is attested slightly earlier.

Noun

manacle (plural manacles)

1. A shackle for the wrist, usually consisting of a pair of joined rings; a handcuff; (by extension) a similar device put around an ankle to restrict free movement.
2. (figuratively) A fetter, a restriction.

Verb

manacle (third-person singular simple present manacles, present participle manacling, simple past and past participle manacled)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To confine with manacles.

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