MAN'ACLE, noun [Latin manica; from manus, the hand.] An instrument of iron for fastening the hands; hand-cuffs; shackles. It is generally used in the plural, manacles. MAN'ACLE, verb transitive To put on hand-cuffs or other fastening for confining the hands. 1. To shackle; to confine; to restrain the use of the limbs or natural powers. Is it thus you use this monarch, to manacle him hand and foot?
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