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单词 handlock
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handlockn.

Brit. /ˈhan(d)lɒk/, U.S. /ˈhæn(d)ˌlɑk/
Forms: see hand n. and lock n.2
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hand n., lock n.2
Etymology: < hand n. + lock n.2
Now historical and rare.
A lockable metal ring used to secure the wrist of a prisoner to someone or something; a manacle, a handcuff; (in plural) a linked pair of these, used esp. to secure a prisoner's wrists together.
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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
1532 in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) II. 158 The malefactour wished that he had the King in the ende of a hand lokk, and the Deputie in the other ende.
1589 R. Lane in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 739 Who also should haue kept me companie in an handlocke with the rest.
1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia i. ii. 35 The White Knight, and his sonne in law,..whom in hand-lockes he carried away with him.
1836 T. Gaspey Self-condemned 21 I expected he would have been placed in the strong-hold, and made fast with handlocks and fetters.
1866 Trans. Amer. Med. Assoc. 16 225 The patient was..placed at once in a crib,..her hands being confined by iron hand-locks.
1901 A. E. W. Mason Clementina xxii. 264 The chain linked your handlocks, Mr. Wogan.
2005 R. Turvey Treason & Trial J. Perrot i. v. 104 He claimed that he had been manacled by means of leg-irons and, at night, by a handlock.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

handlockv.

Brit. /ˈhan(d)lɒk/, U.S. /ˈhæn(d)ˌlɑk/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hand n., lock v.1
Etymology: < hand n. + lock v.1, after handlock n.Compare Old English handlocen , adjective ( < hand n. + locen , past participle of louk v.1: see discussion at lock v.1), attested in Beowulf in a different and unrelated sense ‘joined together by hand (of a mail-shirt made up of linked rings)’.
Now rare.
transitive. To handcuff (a person) (to someone or something). Also figurative. Chiefly in past participle.
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
1587 J. Hooker tr. Giraldus Cambrensis Vaticinall Hist. Conquest Ireland i. xxxii. 21/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II The king..commanded him to be handlocked and fettered, with an other prisoner.
1689 R. Cox Hibernia Anglicana: Pt. 1 338 The Perfidious Host..detained him Prisoner, and hand-locked him for some time.
1798 J. O'Keeffe Alfred ii. iii. in Dramatic Wks. IV. 228 Master Baron, you set me down this morning leg-lock'd in the stocks; this evening I set myself down hand-lock'd to my Lady.
1829 H. Murray Hist. Acct. Discoveries & Trav. N. Amer. I. iv. 197 The son was still kept handlocked.
1885 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 761/1 She was no longer hand-locked to a spasmodically galvanised corpse.
1912 N. Gale Song in September 176 And though I languish every day That Agony shall have her play, Handlocked with Hope I bear my part.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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