SAT vocabulary
Manacle
A heavy metal band, loop, or chain used to fasten the wrists or ankles of a prisoner.
Example
"The escapee spent hours filing through the rusted iron manacle that bound his left wrist."
Etymology
From Middle English manacle, from Old French manicle, from Latin manicula, diminutive of manus (hand).
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