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Vambrace :: Vambrace (n.) The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.

Shackle :: Shackle (n.) Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter..

Mitten :: Mitten (n.) A cover for the wrist and forearm.

Sleevehand :: Sleevehand (n.) The part of a sleeve nearest the hand; a cuff or wristband.

Wrist :: Wrist (n.) A stud or pin which forms a journal; -- also called wrist pin.

Bangle :: Bangle (n.) An ornamental circlet, of glass, gold, silver, or other material, worn by women in India and Africa, and in some other countries, upon the wrist or ankle; a ring bracelet..

Manacle :: Manacle (n.) A handcuff; a shackle for the hand or wrist; -- usually in the plural.

Foot :: Foot (n.) The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests when standing, or moves. See Manus, and Pes..

Cuff :: Cuff (n.) Any ornamental appendage at the wrist, whether attached to the sleeve of the garment or separate; especially, in modern times, such an appendage of starched linen, or a substitute for it of paper, or the like..

Hand :: Hand (n.) That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus..

Strain :: Strain (a.) To injure in the muscles or joints by causing to make too strong an effort; to harm by overexertion; to sprain; as, to strain a horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to strain a muscle..

Spraints :: Sprain (n.) The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining; as, a bad sprain of the wrist..

Mitt :: Mitt (n.) A mitten; also, a covering for the wrist and hand and not for the fingers..

Corsage :: Corsage (n.) a flower or small arrangement of flowers worn by a person as a personal ornament. Typically worn by women on special occasions (as, at a ball or an anniversary celebration), a corsage may be worn pinned to the chest, or tied to the wrist. It is usually larger or more elaborate than a boutonniere..

Carpus :: Carpus (n.) The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short bones disposed in two rows..

Reclaim :: Reclaim (v. t.) To call back, as a hawk to the wrist in falconry, by a certain customary call..

Wristlet :: Wristlet (n.) An elastic band worn around the wrist, as for the purpose of securing the upper part of a glove..

Stud :: Stud (n.) An ornamental button of various forms, worn in a shirt front, collar, wristband, or the like, not sewed in place, but inserted through a buttonhole or eyelet, and transferable..

Retinaculum :: Retinaculum (n.) One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle..

Tierce :: Tierce (n.) A position in thrusting or parrying in which the wrist and nails are turned downward.

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