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▪ I. † ˈhandlock Obs.
[See lock n.]
A shackle for the hands; a manacle, a handcuff.
1532St. Papers Hen. VIII, II. 158 The malefactour wished that he had the King in the ende of a hand lokk, and the Deputie in the other ende. 1600Hakluyt Voy. (1810) III. 313 Who should also have kept me companie in a handlocke with the rest. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. i. ii. (1810) 35 The White Knight, and his sonne in law..Whom in hand⁓lockes he carried away with him.
▪ II. ˈhandlock, v.
[f. prec. n.; cf. also lock v.]
trans. To handcuff. Also transf. Chiefly in pa. pple.
1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 21/2 The king..commanded him to be handlocked and fettered, with an other prisoner. 1826Scott Woodst. xxxvi, Still holding his..friend's arm enclosed and hand-locked in his. 1829H. Murray N. Amer. I. iv. 197 The son was still kept handlocked. |