hand-boltn.
/ˈhan(d)bəʊlt/, U.S. /ˈhæn(d)ˌboʊlt/ Now rare.
A handcuff. Frequently in plural. Also figurative.
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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
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1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 243/2 He the said maister Hierome caried a great handbolt of iron with a long chaine in his hand, and as he passed, the chaine made a great ratling and noyse.
1693 J. Tutchin New Martyrol. 526 There was, by good Report, several Scores died in Ilchester by Infectious Diseases, and in their Irons, and Hand-bolt.
1715 Persecution Expos'd 79 He began to hale and pull them, and commanded the Turn-Key to fetch Hand-Bolts.
1816 Trial Murder W. Ingram 44 Thomas Collins and I were fettered together: the hand-bolt hurt us.
1831 Examiner 467/1 [He] pronounces the nomination boroughs conservative—the hand-bolts of the Commons.
2008 Dover Express (Nexis) 18 Dec. 10 He then asked me to blow my whistle and rattle my hand-bolts and truncheon against the mouthpiece of the phone to assure him I had them with me.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
hand-boltv.
/ˈhan(d)bəʊlt/, U.S. /ˈhæn(d)ˌboʊlt/ Now rare.
transitive. To handcuff (a person).
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > bind, fetter, or shackle [verb (transitive)] > by the hands or arms
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1702 in J. Foxe New Bk. Martyrs (1784) 808/1 The prisoners commonly about once a week had liberty from their keeper to go out of the said prison, hand-bolted two and two, to the said keeper's house.
1745 Life Bampfylde-Moore Carew 76 He went to the Regiment then lying at Kingsale, and was Hand-bolted the whole Passage.
1768 J. Woodforde Diary 22 Nov. (1981) I. 83 He came handbolted to Church for fear of running away.
1816 Trial Berkeley Poachers 44 Colonel Berkeley, and several more came up to us, and hand-bolted us.
1831 Lincoln Herald 22 July 2/3 Constable, do your duty—handbolt them.
1916 B. E. Jones How to make & operate Moving Pictures xvii. 191 Hand-bolted prisoner releasing himself and walking through the bars of his apartment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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