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Manacle

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To Mánacle. v.a. [from the noun.] To chain the hands; to shackle.

            We'll bait thy bears to death,
And manacle the bearward in their chains. Shakespeare.

I'll manacle thy neck and feet together. Shakespeare.

Is it thus you use this monarch, to manacle and shackle him hand and foot. Arbuthnot and Pope's Mart. Scrib.

Sources: Arbuthnot, John (227) · Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2 (49) · Pope, Alexander (393) · Shakespeare's Tempest (50)

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