单词 | to bind hand and foot |
释义 | > as lemmasto bind hand and foot (a) 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 also) used to indicate something done to or involving the entire body. Now also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > bind, fetter, or shackle [verb (transitive)] bind971 to bind hand and footOE i-bindec1000 umgivea1300 warrok1362 hampera1375 bolt1377 shacklec1440 astrainc1475 estrain1483 to put in irons1533 to tie up1570 manacle1582 beshackle1599 to tie (also lay) neck and heels1618 fillet1633 kilta1689 to tie down1699 oblige1718 hog-tie1886 zip-tie1985 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxxv. 476 Bindað hine handum & fotum & wurpað on þam yttrum þeostrum. OE West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) xi. 44 Sona stop forð se ðe dead wæs gebunden handan & fotan [L. ligatus pedes et manus institis]. a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 17 He..hat hem me nemen and binden me, baðe handen and fiet. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 14355 Bath fete and hand þar was he bunden. a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 45 He was naylet hond and fote to þe crosse, and soo heuen vp, þat þe body paysude downe to hys fete. 1577 R. Willes & R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Hist. Trauayle W. & E. Indies f. 243v They al weare theyr lyuereys, that is, boords at theyr neckes, yronned hand and foote. 1594 T. Kyd tr. R. Garnier Cornelia v. sig. Kv They ranne at euer-each other hand and foote. ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xxii. 338 Wrapt about With sure and pinching cords, both foote and hand. 1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 56 He is forth-with bound hand and foot. 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. xiv. 99 I..with my cords tied him royster-like both hand and foot. 1735 Lives Most Remarkable Criminals I. 128 He left him ty'd Hand and Foot. 1797 S. James Narr. Voy. 35 He found two English gentlemen bound hand and foot to the ringbolts in the 'tween decks. 1851 Benares Mag. Apr. 262 James..trembled hand and foot from fatigue and exertion. 1893 Law Times 94 502/2 The Divisional Court held themselves bound hand and foot by the authorities. 1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey xii Then have yourself lashed hand and foot into your ship against the housing of the mast. 2002 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 19 May 11/3 If anyone saw a sail and did not report it he would be bound hand and foot and cooked in the whalers' try-pots of boiling oil. < as lemmas |
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