manacle
noun
a shackle for the hand; handcuff.
manacles
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present tense formof manacle (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Initially modeled in plaster and later cast in bronze, “The Freedman” portrays a formerly enslaved man clad in a loincloth, his left arm in manacles, his right breaking free from the chains of bondage.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
Just past midnight on a cold, wet November night in 1904, 13-year-olds William Kiger and Albert Cook, wearing only their skivvies and chained together with ankle manacles, cradled the shackles to stop them clanking.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2022
Winters, we can look across the vast eastward miles, and regard with pity the icebound, housebound millions in the manacles of winter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
In so doing, he has posed the question of what mind-forg'd manacles keep three, British-born, young men enslaved to a pair of unscrupulous builders.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2020
Some of the Champions, Grave, Ned, and Bill included, had been given long manacles.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
