manicle

Noun

manicle (plural manicles)

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.2000, Lancelot of the Lake, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 429
   • The sergents, in place of the hauberk, wore a smaller hauberk called a haubergeon without manicles - the attached mail glove - an iron cap in place of the helmet, and nail leggings without foot-protectors (see Contanine, p.69).2007 06, E. H. Ruck, An Index of Themes and Motifs in Twelfth-Century French Arthurian Poetry, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, →ISBN, page 157