Sense file
How the sense moved
The archive follows the dated record first, then reads the social or rhetorical pressure that hardened, softened, narrowed, or reversed the word.
Older meaning
Made by hand.
Modern meaning
Machine or factory production.
Research lens
One of the clearest technology shifts because the original body-part logic is still visible.
Meaning trail
Root
made by hand
Manu means hand.
Older sense
craft production
The term belonged to skilled making.
Now
industrial production
Mechanized scale replaced literal hands.