manacle

Borrowed from Old French manicle, from Latin manicula.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæn.ə.kəl/

manacle (plural manacles)

1. A shackle, consisting of a pair of joined rings, to restrict the free movement of the hands or feet.
2. Any similar device such as a fetter or handcuffs.

Often used in its plural, and as such a plurale tantum.

• handcuffs

manacle (third-person singular simple present manacles, present participle manacling, simple past and past participle manacled)

1. To confine with manacles.
   • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, London: Chapman & Hall:

     As it came nearer, I saw it to be Magwitch, swimming, but not swimming freely. He was taken on board, and instantly manacled at the wrists and ankles.

• Alcmena, MacLean, Maclean, laceman