Why this word is great
MANACLES — [Noun] A shackle or fetter for the hand, typically used in pairs to restrain a person's wrists. From Middle English manicle, from Old French manicle, from Latin manicula ("little hand, handle"), a diminutive of manus ("hand"). Unlike "shackle," a general term for any restraining ring, or "fetter," which binds the feet to hobble locomotion, "manacles" specifies the intimate, symbolic imprisonment of the hands. They are the cold, granular bite of iron on the wrist-bone; the leaden weight that turns a simple gesture into an ordeal; the metallic chime accompanying every futile struggle. In rendering the hands useless, they make a cage of the body's most articulate parts and formalize the surrender not of the body, but of the will to act.