esp. To make fast (any one) with bonds or fetters; to deprive of personal liberty, make a captive or prisoner.

hand and foot (also hands and feet, foot and hand, feet and hands): at or by the hands and feet, esp. in to bind hand and foot; (more generally…

transitive. To bind.

transitive. To enclose, surround, environ.

transitive. To girth (a horse); to bind (a person). Obsolete.

transitive. To obstruct the free movement of (a person or animal), by fastening something on, or by material obstacles or entanglements; to…

transitive. To fetter, shackle; also figurative. Obsolete.

transitive. To confine with shackles; to put a shackle or shackles on.

To bind; to put under obligation; to restrain.

transitive. To bind tightly.

Having, or so as to have, the hands or feet shackled; in or into shackles or fetters. Frequently in to put in irons: to shackle, to fetter.

To tie (a person or animal) to some fixed object or in some confined space, so as to prevent from escaping; to fasten up.

transitive. More generally: to fetter (legs, etc.); to fasten, secure.

to tie (also †lay) neck and heels: to confine or bind securely. Also †to lie neck and heels and figurative.

transitive. To bind with or as with a fillet. †To bind or tie up, to confine or swathe with a bandage (obsolete). Also Surgery. To bandage (a limb).

To fasten or tie up; to pull or hoist up; to ‘string up’, to hang.

literal. To fasten down or confine by tying: see sense 1 and down, adv.

transitive. To fasten or attach closely; to bind, tie up. Obsolete.

transitive. To secure (an animal) by tying all four feet together, or (a person) by tying the hands and feet together.

transitive. To fasten or secure (something) with a zip tie or zip ties; (often) esp. to bind (a person's wrists or ankles) with a zip tie or zip…