MANACLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does manacle mean? 

• MANACLE (noun)
  The noun MANACLE has 1 sense:

1. shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs

  Familiarity information: MANACLE used as a noun is very rare.

• MANACLE (verb)
  The verb MANACLE has 1 sense:

1. confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs

  Familiarity information: MANACLE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANACLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

cuff; handcuff; handlock; manacle

Hypernyms ("manacle" is a kind of...):

bond; hamper; shackle; trammel (a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner))

Derivation:

manacle (confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs)

• MANACLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they manacle    ... he / she / it manacles   
Past simple: manacled   
Past participle: manacled   
-ing form: manacling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cuff; handcuff; manacle

Context example:

The police handcuffed the suspect at the scene of the crime

Hypernyms (to "manacle" is one way to...):

fetter; shackle (restrain with fetters)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to manacle the prisoners

Derivation:

manacle (shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs)

 Context examples 

We entered the gloomy prison chamber and beheld Justine sitting on some straw at the farther end; her hands were manacled, and her head rested on her knees.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He sank with a deep groan on the settee and buried his face in his manacled hands.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Send me away how you will and where you will; send keepers with me with whips and chains; let them take me in a strait-waistcoat, manacled and leg-ironed, even to a gaol; but let me go out of this.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)