Usually means: Unit of Roman soldiers; small.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. maniple: Merriam-Webster
  2. maniple: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. maniple: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. maniple: Collins English Dictionary
  5. maniple: Wordnik
  6. maniple: Wiktionary
  7. maniple: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. maniple: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Maniple, maniple: Dictionary.com
  10. Maniple (military unit), Maniple (vestment), Maniple: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Maniple: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. maniple: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Maniple: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. maniple: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. maniple: FreeDictionary.org
  16. maniple: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. maniple: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Maniple: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. maniple: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (maniple)

noun:  (Ancient Rome, military) A division of the Roman army numbering 120 (or sometimes 60) soldiers exclusive of officers; (generally, obsolete) any small body of soldiers.
noun:  (Christianity, chiefly historical) In Western Christianity, an ornamental band or scarf worn upon the left arm as a part of the vestments of a priest in the Roman Catholic Church, and sometimes the Church of England.
noun:  (obsolete, informal) A hand; a fist.
noun:  (obsolete) A handful.

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