manicle

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. On armor, a kind of attached mail glove or gauntlet.
    — [Footnotes:] impossible: Gawain clearly considers his pledge to be as binding as an oath. gauntlets: strictly speaking, manicles would in this case be chainmail mittens.
  2. Obsolete form of manacle. alt-of,obsolete
    — 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.

词形变化

manicles plural

词汇关系

相关词
manacle manicule

词源

From Middle English manicle, from Old French manicle (“gauntlet; manacle”).
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