manacles
Iron wrist bindings
Manacles are metal restraints locked around the wrists, essentially a formal or literary word for handcuffs.
The term extends to ankle restraints as well.
Figuratively, manacles are anything that restricts freedom: the manacles of poverty, manacles of tradition.
To manacle someone is to bind them with such restraints or to constrain them generally.
Ankle restraints, often metal
- chainsLinked metal restraints
- ironsRestraints or golf clubs
- cuffsSleeve or wrist bands
- legcuffsAnkle-binding restraints
trammels · hobbles · clamps · restraints · bindings · bracelets · tethers · yokes
Legal detention in jail
- confinementState of being restricted
- dungeonSubterranean prison chamber
- cellBasic unit of life
- incarcerationConfinement in jail
detention · custody · enslavement · bondage · prisoners · captives · chains · gulag
Limiting condition or rule
- restrictionLimit on action
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
- tyrannyOppressive, absolute governance
subjugation · burden · yoke · slavery · liberation · freedom · escape · bound
fetters
Ankle restraints, often metal
legcuffs · trammels · hobbles · clamps · restraints · bindings · bracelets · tethers · yokes · anklets
imprisonment
Legal detention in jail
- confinementState of being restricted
- dungeonSubterranean prison chamber
- cellBasic unit of life
incarceration · detention · custody · enslavement · bondage · prisoners · captives · chains · gulag · penitentiary
constraint
Limiting condition or rule
- restrictionLimit on action
- bondageInvoluntary subjugation to another
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
tyranny · subjugation · burden · yoke · slavery · liberation · freedom · escape · bound · trapped
police
Civil law enforcement
- detentionTemporary official holding
- custodyProtective care or control
- apprehensionNervous anticipation of trouble
booking · suspect · criminal · arraignment · transport · perp walk · restraint · cuffed · detained · enforcement
- captivitycaptive, prisoner, detained, imprisoned, incarcerated
- dungeondungeon, oubliette, cell bars, torture chamber, chains
- slaverychattel slavery, enslaved, slave, enslavement, slave traders
- penal historyprison, prisons, gaols, jails, penitentiaries
- prison equipmentprison bars, cell bars, bars, prison cell, jail cell
- restraintschains, ropes, cuffs, fetters, leg irons
manaclesfreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · release · emancipation · liberation · free hands