Manacle

Definitions: Manacle

Manacle

Noun

1. Shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs.

Verb

1. Confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs; "The police handcuffed the suspect at the scene of the crime".

Date "manacle" was first used: sometime around 1340. (references)

Synonyms: Manacle

Synonyms: cuffs (n), handcuffs (n), handlock (n), cuff (v), handcuff (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Prison	Bond; bandage; irons, pinion, gyve, fetter, shackle, trammel, manacle, handcuff, straight jacket, strait jacket, strait-jacket, strait-waistcoat, hopples; vice, vise.
Restraint	Enchain; fasten; (join); fetter, shackle; entrammel; bridle, muzzle, hopple, gag, pinion, manacle, handcuff, tie one's hands, hobble, bind hand and foot; swathe, swaddle; pin down, tether; picket; tie down, tie up; secure; forge fetters; disable, hamstring (incapacitate).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Manacle

English words defined with "manacle": Immanacle ♦ Manacled, Manacling. (references)

Specialty definitions using "manacle": manacle ring. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The Manacle (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Manacle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Manacle" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	9	117,287

Expression using "manacle": manacle ring. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "manacle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pranga (cuff, gyve, handcuff, iron, irons, nippers, shackle, shackles), pengesë (balk, bar, barrier, baulk, block, boom, chock, clog, cramp, crash barrier, cumber, detention, difficulty, dike, disadvantage, drag, drawback, encumbrance, fetter, handicap, hedge, hindrance, hitch, hold up, holdback, hurdle, impediment, interference, interruption, jamming, liability, mash, obstacle, obstruction, preclusion, pullback, retardation, retardment, rub, setback, stay, stoppage, stumbling block, stumbling-stone, stunt, traverse, trip up), hekura (grate, handcuffs, iron). (various references)

Arabic		‏قيد (bind, bond, bridle, chain, check, confine, derestrict, enchain, entry, fetter, handcuff, hold back, impose restrictions on, item, limit, limitation, qualify, record, register, restrain, restrict, restriction, rope, set bounds to, set down, shackle, tie, tie up), ‏غل (cuff, fetter, jealousy, malevolence, pique, shackle, venom, yield), ‏صفاد (shackle), ‏صعد (ascend, ascent, balloon, climb, embark, escalate, go up, rise, scale, sublimate, uphill). (various references)

Bulgarian		слагам окови на (iron), слагам белезници на (handcuffed, shackle), спънка (backset, balk, baulk, countercheck, cramp, difficulty, drawback, hindrance, hitch, hobble, impediment, interference, interruption, kink, liability, obstacle, preclusion, pull back, setback, shoal, stumbling block), белезници (bracelet, darbies, handcuffs, mittens, nippers, shackles), пречка (bit, block, blockage, check, clog, cross, difficulty, disadvantage, disqualification, embarrassment, encumbrance, handicap, hindrance, holdback, hurdle, impediment, kibosh, let, liability, obstacle, preclusion, pull back, remora, rub, setback, spoke, stay, stop, stumbling-stone, traverse). (various references)

Czech		spoutat (bind, enchain, enfetter, fetter, handcuff, harness, pinion, shackle, tie), pouto (bond, fetter). (various references)

Danish		spændering (manacle ring). (various references)

Dutch		opbreekring (manacle ring), klemring (clamp ring, collet, hoop ring, manacle ring, ring, shrunk-on, spring clip). (various references)

Farsi		قید (Adverb, Assurance, Bind, Bridle, Clog, Constraint, Encumbrance, Hamper, Proviso, Qualification, Reservation, Rocker, Shackle, Tie), زنجیرکردن , زنجیر (Bond, Catena, Curb, Hobble, Link, Sling, Tow), دستبندزدن , بند (Article, Bond, Clamp, Clause, Dam, Dike, Fascia, Fit, Hinge, Internode, Joggle, Joint, Levee, Ligament, Ligature, Line, Link, Noose, Paragraph, Provision, Proviso, Segment, Sling, Snare, Stanza, Tie, Trawl, Weir, Wristband), بخو (Handcuff). (various references)

French		mettre les menottes, menotte, enchaîner, chaîne. (various references)

German		mit ketten fesseln, ketten (chain, chaining, chains, concatenate), in ketten legen (chain up, enchain, shackle), hund (bastard, dog, hound), handschellen anlegen (handcuff), handfesseln (hand cuffs), handfessel (handcuff), fesseln (attract, bind, bind up, bonds, chain up, chains, enchain, engage, engross, enthrall, fascinate, fetter, fetters, grip, handcuff, lashing, mesmerize, rivet, shackle, slaving, thrill, tie down, tie up, to attract, to captivate, to enchain, to fetter, to shackle, to trammel, trammel). (various references)

Greek		χειροπέδη (handcuff, handcuffs), χειροπέδεσ (handcuffs), δένω με χειροπέδεσ, δένω με αλυσίδεσ, δεσμά (bonds, fetters, gyves, shackles, trammels). (various references)

Hebrew		י�"ו� ית (handcuff, muffle), אזיקים (chains, fetters, handcuffs, iron, shackles). (various references)

Hungarian		bilincs (bond, chain, gyve, handcuff, handcuffs, irons, shackle, wristlet). (various references)

Indonesian		menggari (handcuff, shackle), belenggu (gyvess, handcuff, shackle, trammel). (various references)

Italian		manetta (cuff link, throttle, throttle control lever, throttle lever), intralciare (encumber, hamper, handicap, hinder), inceppare (clog, hinder, obstruct, stick), impastoiare (fetter, hamshackle, hobble, tether, trammel), ammanettare (handcuff). (various references)

Manx		glass-laue, geuley (bond, chain, shackle), geulaghey (bind in chains, chain, shackle), cur ayns geulaghyn. (various references)

Pig Latin		anaclemay

Portuguese		manilha (clevis, flange, Manila, shackle), o homem põe e deus dispõe, constrangimento (constraint, embarrassing, enforcement, neck, restraint), algemar (cuff, enchant, fetter, gyve, handcuffs, shackle, trammel). (various references)

Russian		кандалы (fetter, iron, nippers, shackle, shackles), наручники (handcuffs), препятствие (balk, barrier, baulk, block, check, clog, contrariety, countercheck, discouragement, disincentive, drawback, encumbrance, hedge, holdback, hurdle, impediment, leap, obstacle, obstruction, preclusion, pull back, setback, traverse). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		okovati (chain, enchain, enfetter, gyve, metal, overlay, shackle, stud), okov (chain, chains, fetter, gyve, shackle). (various references)

Spanish		manilla (bracelet, bundle, hand, handle, quire, quire of paper), poner esposas. (various references)

Swedish		sätta handbojor på. (various references)

Thai		ใส่กุญแจมือ (handcuff, shackle), กุญแจมือ (handcuff, shackle). (various references)

Turkish		kelepçelemek (handcuff, shackle), kelepçe (bracelets, clamp, cleat, cuff, darbies, handcuff, handcuffs, manacles, nippers, shackle, wristlet). (various references)

Ukranian		наручники (bracelets, cuffs, nipper, nippers, shackles), надівати наручники (handcuff). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	manicula. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "manacle": manacled, manacles. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Manacle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Madaule, Mahakala, Mahale, Mainace, Makale, Makalle, Manal, Manali, mancala, Mancelle, mancle, Manfalut, manichee, manicle, manicple, Mannakee, Manouche, maracel, Mcanallen, Mencl, Minale, minicell, monacle, Moncale. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-l-m-n"
	-1 letter: anlace.
	-2 letters: alane, camel, canal, clean, lance, leman, macle.
	-3 letters: acme, acne, alae, alan, alec, alma, alme, amen, anal, calm, came, cane, clam, clan, elan, lace, lama, lame, lane, lean, mace, male, mana, mane, meal, mean, name, nema.
	-4 letters: aal, ace, ala, ale, ama, ana, ane, cam, can, cel, elm, lac, lam, lea, mac, mae, man, mel, men, nae, nam.
	-5 letters: aa, ae, al, am, an, el, em, en, la, ma, me, na, ne.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-l-m-n"
	+1 letter: analcime, calamine, manacled, manacles, placeman.
	+2 letters: ambulance, analcimes, calamined, calamines, calcaneum, campanile, cattleman, imbalance.
	+3 letters: aldermanic, ambulances, anemically, animalcule, blancmange, calamander, calumniate, campaniles, carmagnole, catamenial, cavalrymen, demoniacal, elecampane, imbalanced, imbalances, machinable, malignance, mechanical, menarcheal, misbalance, semantical, unicameral.
	+4 letters: aeronomical, ambivalence, analemmatic, animalcules, blancmanges, calamanders, calumniated, calumniates, campanulate, candelabrum, carmagnoles, chamberlain, commandable, declamation, egomaniacal, elecampanes, enigmatical, exclamation, flamboyance, kinematical, machineable, malefaction, malfeasance, malignances, mechanicals, megalomanic, melancholia, mesalliance, misalliance, misbalanced, misbalances, miscellanea, nematicidal, nematocidal, parenchymal, reclamation, sacramental, unmatchable.
	+5 letters: alphanumeric, ambivalences, amicableness, anecdotalism, anticlimaxes, candelabrums, caramelising, caramelizing, chamberlains, complaisance, decalcomania, declamations, demoniacally, elasmobranch, emasculating, emasculation, exclamations, flamboyances, incomparable, kleptomaniac, macronuclear, magnetically, malefactions, malfeasances, malignancies, mecamylamine, mechanically, mechanizable, megalomaniac, melancholiac, melancholias, merchantable, mesalliances, mesencephala, metencephala, microbalance, misalliances, reclamations, sacramentals, semantically, unacclimated, unicamerally.
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