Manacles, shackles, neck...?

Factual Questions
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I think of manacles as shackles that go around the wrists, and shackles as irons that go around the ankles. Is there a term for neck shackles?

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Collar.

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Manacales, Shackles, … Neckle?

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Jougs.

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Shackles is the general term. Manacles go around the wrists, and fetters go around the ankles.

A check of various dictionaries suggests there isn’t a specific term for a neck restraint aside from collar. There might be an obsolete or archaic one.

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Merriam-Webster agrees, though its use seems to be limited to Scotland.

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Is anyone even just a tiny bit curious about why he wants to know? :wink:

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Im currently writing something and the excat same question came up :smirk:

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Welcome to the SDMB !
(If you need a proof reader, I’m available !)

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I hope that you are planning to refashion the rest of the sentence around the ex-cat.

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Welcome to the SDMB. We are here to fight ignorance. We are happy that you learned something you didn’t know.

We hope you will stay, and contribute your own knowledge to the community.

This is a place for serious discussion, and silly jokes like this one. Very often you get both in the same thread.

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The Oxford English Dictionary lists the following terms, most of them archaic, obsolete, or dialectal. Seems like collar is the only current, specific term for a neck restraint.

  • carcan (obsolete) – An iron collar used for punishment.

  • collar – A band of iron or other metal fixed round the neck of prisoners, worn as a badge of servitude, etc.

  • jougs (Scottish) – An old Scottish instrument of punishment, analogous to the pillory; it consisted of an iron collar, which was locked round the culprit’s neck, and was attached by a chain to a wall or post.

  • shackle (Old English) – a ring or collar for the neck of a prisoner

  • sweor-cops (obsolete) – A… collar… to secure a prisoner.

  • thew (obsolete) – Name of an instrument or apparatus of punishment ordained, instead of the pillory, for women; often identified with the cucking-stool. Also in comb. thewpenny (cf. burghal-penny). The med.L. equivalent was collistrigium, i.e. an iron collar compressing and confining the neck.

  • witch’s bridle – an iron collar and gag formerly used as an instrument of torture in Scottish witch-trials