English Dictionary

manicle

noun

On armor, a kind of attached mail glove or gauntlet. / Obsolete form of manacle.

The knight wore manicles on his arms for protection.

意味（1）

On armor, a kind of attached mail glove or gauntlet.

[Footnotes:] impossible: Gawain clearly considers his pledge to be as binding as an oath.

[Footnotes:] impossible: Gawain clearly considers his pledge to be as binding as an oath. gauntlets: strictly speaking, manicles would in this case be chainmail mittens.

意味（2）

Obsolete form of manacle.

One implication of “deliverance” is release from the bondage of the mind, nicely summed up by William Blake's “mindforg'd manicles” (102). When the mind is unaware of its enslavement, emancipation is impossible.