Usually means: Restraining device, typically for wrists.
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  1. manacle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. manacle: Merriam-Webster
  3. manacle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. manacle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. manacle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. manacle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Manacle, manacle: Wordnik
  8. manacle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. manacle: Wiktionary
  10. manacle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. manacle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. manacle: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Manacle, manacle: Dictionary.com
  14. manacle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Manacle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Manacle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. manacle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. manacle: Rhymezone
  19. Manacle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. manacle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. manacle: FreeDictionary.org
  22. manacle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. manacle: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. manacle: Legal dictionary

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  1. manacle: Encyclopedia

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  1. manacle: A Word A Day

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  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

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  1. manacle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See manacled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A shackle for the wrist, usually consisting of a pair of joined rings; a handcuff; (by extension) a similar device put around an ankle to restrict free movement.
noun:  (figuratively) A fetter, a restriction.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To confine with manacles.

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