单词 | handcuff |
释义 | handcuffn. Usually in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > arm > parts of > cuff cuff1522 sleeve-hand?c1547 wristband1571 handcuff1591 hand wrist1707 1591 J. Florio Second Frutes 9 Eight ruffe bands with their hand cuffs wrought with silke. 1645 in G. F. Dow Probate Rec. Essex County, Mass. (1916) I. 38 1 pr. handcuffs & 1 yd. seaming lace. 1656–7 in H. Rose & L. Shaw Geneal. Deduction Family Rose of Kilravock (1848) 367 For ane elne of Holland cloth to be bands and handcuffes to Hewe. 1685 G. Sinclair Satans Invisible World Discovered 12 A Man with black cloaths and a blew band, and white handcuffs, with hoggers on his feet. 2. a. A lockable restraint consisting of a ring, typically made of metal and one of a pair joined by a short chain or bar, which can secure both a prisoner's wrists together or one wrist to that of another person; = cuff n.1 3. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > [noun] > bond(s) or fetter(s) or shackle(s) > for the hands or arms copsa700 manaclec1350 handlock1532 hand-bolt1563 handcuff1649 cuff1663 Darbies1673 glim-fenders1699 government securities1707 pinion1736 ruffles1776 bracelet1817 nippers1821 handicuff1825 shangy1839 snitchers1864 come-along1874 shackle-irons1876 mitten1880 wristlet1881 snaps1891 snips1891 stringers1893 twister1910 1649 Perfect Occurr. Parl. No. 138. 1241 He was then manacled with hand-cuffes of Iron, as all other prisoners alwayes are when they are cast for their lives. 1695 C. Ray in Acts & Resolves Mass. Bay (1892) VII. 488 To makeing 4 shackles for handcuffs & two little staples for the barrs. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 210 Taking the Key from him with which he usually unlock'd the Hand-cuffs which the Negroes were fetter'd with. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxiv. 223 The mate who guarded us thither, ordered my hand-cuffs to be taken off, that I might get on board the easier. 1807 in F. D. Price Wigginton Constables' Bk. (1971) 106 Jan 6, Paid for hand coffs 0 5 0. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xii. 120 Putting a pair of handcuffs in his pocket. 1939 R. Chandler Big Sleep xvii. 138 I went to the car and got a pair of handcuffs out of the glove compartment. 1987 D. F. Wallace Broom of Syst. (1993) 446 On her wrist Candy could see what was pretty clearly a handcuff, trailing a short length of broken pretend-silver chain. 2012 Sun (Nexis) 21 Jan. 5 He was seized under a European Arrest Warrant and hurled abuse at The Sun's photographer as he was led away in handcuffs. b. figurative. Something regarded as resembling a handcuff in function.golden handcuffs: see golden adj. and n. Compounds 2a. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [noun] limiting1391 moderation1429 bridlingc1443 limitation1483 confine1548 restriction1554 limit1572 prescription1604 bounding1607 circumscriptiona1616 stricture1649 stinting1656 circumscribing1660 contractiona1670 confinement1678 contracting1692 handcuff1814 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. iv. 60 A rash promise is not a steel handcuff; it may be shaken off. View more context for this quotation 1836 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 347 ‘Woful-man’..must be divided into two separate words, for such they are, when released from the handcuffs of the hyphen. 1951 Life 23 July 30/2 I cannot work effectively with the handcuffs the pressure groups are forging for me now. 1990 J. Eberts & T. Ilott My Indecision is Final viii. 90 Goldcrest was..to take up an increasing amount of those companies' time and attention. 2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 14 Aug. i. 14/3 There are circles in which the ultimate Colorado icon is..a set of fiscal handcuffs called the Taxpayers' Bill of Rights. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). handcuffv. transitive. To put handcuffs on (a person); to shackle by means of handcuffs. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > bind, fetter, or shackle [verb (transitive)] > by the hands or arms manaclea1350 pinion1556 handfast1587 handlock1587 pinno1596 immanacle1637 handcuff1649 cuff1693 hand-bolt1702 1649 Perfect Occurr. Parl. No. 138. 1241 He was very unwilling to be hand-cuft, and pray'd that it might not be. 1688 R. L'Estrange Brief Hist. Times III. 100 This Enformant was Committed thereupon to the Gate-house, where he was Fetter'd, and Hand-Cuff'd. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 84 Tied two and two by the Wrist, as we handcuff Prisoners. 1754 W. Hay Deformity 26 If he cannot carry an Ox, like Milo; he will not, like Milo, be hand-cuffed in the Oak, by attempting to rend it. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 313 To handcuff and fetter your fellow-man. 1883 Harper's Mag. July 204/1 He recoiled, and was in that moment of hesitation pinned from behind and handcuffed. 1916 Sat. Evening Post 1 July 35/1 They were handcuffing the three jewel thieves. 2005 S. Rushdie Shalimar the Clown 386 He was handcuffed and checked with a metal detector and taken to his cell. Derivatives ˈhandcuffed adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > [adjective] > bound, fettered, or shackled > by the hands or arms handfastc1410 pinioned1567 manacled1586 handboundc1604 handcuffed1742 1742 Britannia in Mourning 44 The joint Fleets have convoyed a second Transportation, in the Sight of our hand-cuffed Admiral. 1866 Austral. Jrnl. 10 Feb. 372/1 She would have sprung forward and clasped him in her arms had not her handcuffed wrists prevented her. 2004 Denver Post (Nexis) 4 May a1 A handcuffed suspect who resists entering a police car. ˈhandcuffing n. ΚΠ 1758 J. Massie Facts Regular Method for Payment of Seamen 11 Imprisoning or Hand-cuffing of Impressed Men may be sometimes necessary. 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany iii. 35 I should like to have the handcuffing of you. 2010 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 12 Feb. b1 She was picking up her grandson when she saw the handcuffing last week. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1591v.1649 |
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