| 单词 | strait-waistcoat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstrait-ˈwaistcoat strait-ˈwaistcoat v. (transitive) to confine in a strait waistcoat. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > bind, fetter, or shackle [verb (transitive)] > in a straitjacket jacket1792 strait jacket1814 strait-waistcoat1837 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxviii. 419 Ve thought ve should ha' been obliged to strait-veskit him last night. 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 213 Till their own troublesome bodies..are securely shackled and strait-waistcoated up, and carted away in police-vans to deep-holded ships. < as lemmas |
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