Meaning & use
Manacles
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Metal restraints, typically chains or cuffs, used to bind a prisoner's hands or wrists.
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The prisoner's manacles rattled as guards led him down the corridor.
Archaeologists found rusted manacles among the ruins of the old fort.
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Manacles specifically restrain the hands, distinguishing them from leg irons or fetters, which bind the ankles.
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shackleshandcuffsfetters
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