Meaning of Manacle | Babel Free

Definitions

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.
2. A fetter, a restriction.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“If 'gainſt your ſelfe you be incens'd, wee'le put⟳ you / (Like⟳ one that meanes his proper harme) in Manacles, / Then reaſon ſafely with you: [...]”

If you are angry with yourself, we'll put you / (Like one that means to commit suicide) in manacles, / then reason safely with you: …

“For my ſake weare this [a bracelet], / It is a Manacle of Loue, Ile place⟳ it / Vpon this fayreſt Priſoner.”

“"If you will go quietly with us we will employ⟳ no force⟳," said the man in uniform; "otherwise we must use⟳ these;" and Haldane shuddered as light⟳ steel manacles were produced.”

“Examining the manacles I saw⟳ that they fastened with a massive spring⟳ lock⟳.”

“[T]he ships departed with equipment to keep⟳ the captives in check. Indeed it is that equipment – notably the chains and manacles – which to this day symbolizes the slave ships themselves. The repressive machinery of the slave ship – cannons, swivel guns, hand guns, cutlasses, chains, manacles, thumbscrews – speaks not only of the fear of the ship's owners and crew but points us directly to the essential reality of the slave ships.”

“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?”

“It is this [the commandment of God], which is the manacle of melancholy, when menacing ſuicide, and when deaf to every other diſſuaſive, or countroul; which quaſhes the ſilent, lurking purpoſe of diſontent, when misjudging it's preſent, and reckleſs of it's future deſtiny.”

“You will wonder⟳ how I have⟳ escaped the manacles that so long bound me. I cannot explain⟳ all now; but thus much I am permitted to say⟳, that they were riveted by certain charms: and I cannot be assured of my freedom till I myself return⟳ them to him from whom they came—to him who has so long been the lord of my affections and master of my mind⟳.”

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