Noun: manicle
| Singular | manicle |
| Plural | manicles |
Sample Sentences
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[Footnotes:] impossible: Gawain clearly considers his pledge to be as binding as an oath.
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gauntlets: strictly speaking, manicles would in this case be chainmail mittens. [2000, Lancelot of the Lake, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 429:]
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The sergents, in place of the hauberk, wore a smaller hauberk called a haubergeon without manicles - the attached mail glove - an iron cap in place of the helmet, and nail leggings without foot-protectors (see Contanine, p.69). [2007 06, E. H. Ruck, An Index of Themes and Motifs in Twelfth-Century French Arthurian Poetry, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, →ISBN, page 157:]
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One implication of “deliverance” is release from the bondage of the mind, nicely summed up by William Blake's “mindforg'd manicles” (102). When the mind is unaware of its enslavement, emancipation is impossible. [2014 February 7, James Everett Kibler, Jr.; David Moltke-Hansen, William Gilmore Simms's Selected Reviews on Literature and Civilization, Univ of South Carolina Press, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like manicle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English manicle, from Old French manicle (“gauntlet; manacle”). Doublet of manacle and manicule. See: Middle English Nouns '
manicle'.