单词 | handlock |
释义 | handlockn. 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. 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 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. 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). < n.1532v.1587 |
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