Definition of "manacling" []

• Present participle of manacle. (verb)

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• "She started to rise, but he climbed on the bed to lie half on her, his arm manacling her waist and his leg trapping one of hers."
• "My own modernisation plan involves manacling two each of the worst 50,000 scrote to the legs of senior officers across the agencies and judges for periods of rehabilitation."
• "In an essay published 60 years ago, Katharine Balderston claimed to have identified a recurrent motif of manacling and beating, begged for by Johnson and duly administered by his mother substitute."