English Dictionary

manacle

/ˈmænək(ə)l/

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. / (figuratively) A fetter, a restriction.

The police officer put the manacle on the suspect's wrist.

意味（1）

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.

And gainſt the General we will lift our ſwords

And either lanch his greedie thirſting throat,

Or take him priſoner, and his chaine ſhall ſerue

And gainſt the General we will lift our ſwords And either lanch his greedie thirſting throat, Or take him priſoner, and his chaine ſhall ſerue For Manackles, till he be ranſom’d home.

意味（2）

(figuratively) A fetter, a restriction.

Admit no other way to ſaue his life / … that you, his Siſter, / Finding your ſelfe deſir'd of such a perſon, / Whoſe creadit with the Iudge, or owne great place, / Could fetch your Brother from the Manacles / Of the all-building-Law: and that there were / No earthly meane to ſaue him, but that either / You muſt lay downe the treaſures of your body, / To this ſuppoſed, or elſe to let him ſuffer: / What would you doe?