come-alongn.

1845 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 11 Oct. 232/1 The unaided exertions of the brave Come-alongs, that march in the van of all that is useful and praiseworthy, beckoning onward the lagging rear.

1864 Colburn's United Service Mag. Aug. 598 One of [the men] was heard to say, ‘he is not one of the go alongs, but come alongs’, and they knew that he was always the first in danger.

1874 Inter Ocean (Chicago) 4 Apr. 12/3 The juvenile naturally refused to obey the behest of the policeman, which so incensed the officer that he ornamented the boy's wrists with the ‘come-alongs’ and took him to the station.

1901 C. R. Wooldridge Hands Up! (1906) 380 Before he [sc. the prisoner] came to his senses, the detective..had the handcuffs, or, as they are called in police parlance, ‘come-alongs’, on his wrists.

1945 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 10 Feb. 2/3 Haralson wrestled the boy to the ground and held him there until Saeck arrived at the scene and placed ‘come-alongs’ (wrist chains) on the youth.

1973 E. F. Droge Patrolman 25 Sets of chains known as ‘come-alongs’, that, when wrapped around the wrists and squeezed, induce arrestees to ‘come along’ peacefully.

2004 E. Conlon Blue Blood ii. 40 Now, the memory is a curiosity.., like the ‘come-alongs’ my father once showed me. They were wrist restraints, also called ‘nippers’, and cops carried them through the 1950s.

1891 Electr. Engineer 26 Aug. 270/2 (header) The Cope Automatic ‘Come-Along’.

1905 Telephony Jan. 3/2 This [sc. stretching telephone wires] is done with the assistance of ‘come-alongs’ and pulleys. The ‘come-along’..is a small contrivance for holding the wire with a grip which cannot slacken or slip.

1959 Bulletin (Ontario, Dept. Mines) No. 157. 57 The front of the car had been moved about 2 feet into the cage, with Adams at the front using a hand-operated winch or ‘come-along’ to pull the car.

1991 J. L. Adams Flying Buttresses, Entropy, & O-Rings (1993) 111 They encountered difficulty in lifting it [sc. a beer keg] as high as they wanted, and therefore used a device called a come-along to tighten the rope. A come-along is a small winch capable of exerting a large force.

2013 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 23 May d1 A bush may not bow to intimidation. More persuasive, Mr. Roddick said, is a ‘two-ton come-along—it's like a cable with a reel that will ratchet.’