manacles in English

noun

1

a metal band, chain, or shackle for fastening someone's hands or ankles.

the practice of keeping prisoners in manacles

synonyms: handcuffs, shackles, chains, irons, fetters, restraints, bonds, cuffs, bracelets

verb

1

fetter (a person or a part of the body) with manacles.

his hands were manacled behind his back

synonyms: shackle, fetter, chain, put/clap in irons, handcuff, restrain, secure, cuff

noun

• handcuffs, shackles, chains, irons, fetters, restraints, bonds, cuffs, bracelets

noun

• cuff, handcuff

verb

• shackle, fetter, chain, put/clap in irons, handcuff, restrain, secure, cuff
• cuff, handcuff

Use "manacles" in a sentence

1. 144 rows  · Bracers, armbands, manacles etc

2. Will I be wearing manacles when I lay my father to rest?

3. The place looked like a sort of jail With bars and bolts and horrid things Like manacles and iron rings.

4. One hundred years later , the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination .

5. 150 Item Level 9 First commissioned by the wardens of the prison-planet Daegox 4 and now used in prisons throughout Near Space, the Burdening weapon fusion often bears chains or manacles

6. 30 IN THE summer of 1912 Harry Houdini was clapped in manacles and leg-irons, stuffed into a crate that had been weighed down by lead, and dropped from a tugboat into New York's East River.

7. Examples of abrade in a Sentence ropes Abraded by the rocks were a huge danger to the climbers the prisoner's manacles Abraded his wrists and ankles until they bled Recent Examples on the Web …