manacle
noun
a shackle for the hand; handcuff.
manacled
Example Sentences
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He stays gruff, of course, but you sense that Ray is as manacled by his authoritarian role as Colin literally is in his hungry, slurping devotion to his master.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
When Martin does depict a full human body, such as the manacled one in the potent “Enslaved,” it’s in the form of a black or brown stick figure with a circular head.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2020
There were no triumphal demonstrations, in the tradition of ancient Rome, with manacled Russian captives and their plundered treasures paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2019
“I am leashed it looks like, manacled; cobwebbed, that’s closer,” she says.
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2018
I am leashed, it looks like, manacled; cobwebbed, that’s closer.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
