Definition of "unmanacled" [unmanacled]

• Simple past tense and past participle of unmanacle. (verb)

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• "A tough-looking 22-year-old kid with a twisted upper lip, he has graduated to an unmanacled work gang and is helping renovate a grocery store on the main drag."
• "“Slaves were stowed, heel and point, like logs,” Melville wrote, “and the suffocated and dead were unmanacled, and weeded out from the living every morning.”"
• "He told "with relish" of having crewed on a slave ship where the slaves were "stowed, hue and point, like logs, and the suffocated and dead were unmanacled" and thrown overboard."