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Restrain, as a perp
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handcuff
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Word definitions for handcuff in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s as a decorative addition to a sleeve; 1690s as a type of restraining device, from hand (n.) + cuff (n.). Old English had hondcops "a pair of hand cuffs," but the modern word is a re-invention. The verb is first attested 1720. Related: Handcuffed ; ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. confine or restrain with or as if with manacles or handcuffs; "The police handcuffed the suspect at the scene of the crime" [syn: manacle , cuff ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Handcuff \Hand"cuff`\ (-k[u^]f`), n. [AS. handcops; hand hand + cosp, cops, fetter. The second part was confused with E. cuffs,] A fastening, consisting of an iron ring around the wrist, usually connected by a chain with one on the other wrist; a manacle; ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES golden handcuffs EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The unidentified man was handcuffed and led away. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Even to handcuff both hands if necessary. ▪ Gentry was handcuffed and taken to the Baltimore County ...
Usage examples of handcuff.
I was in blackness, blindfolded and handcuffed, lying face down on grass.
Still blindfolded and handcuffed, I put my head down to protect myself and instinctively clenched my teeth and muscles.
Was I going to stay blindfolded and handcuffed for the rest of my days?
They blindfolded and handcuffed me, and dragged me off without saying a word.
They threw me into the cell, blindfolded, handcuffed, and naked, and left me.
We were put in stress positions in the cells, blindfolded and handcuffed, and we had to stay that way.
Some time in the afternoon of the 6th, they came in and handcuffed and blindfolded me again.
WHEN Brye returned to the house with Cardona, the grizzled inventor was no longer handcuffed.
She cuffed him with his own handcuffs and ripped the phone from the wall.
There was one more rider, a middle-aged black man with his feet lashed to the stirrups and his hands cuffed before him, with the chain of the handcuffs through a ring on the horn of his saddle.
Rescued from her stranded automobile, stripped naked, she was now sitting in a cushionless rail-back pine chair, her wrists handcuffed behind the rails.
The couch had been searched, set upright, still cushionless, and the woman sat in handcuffs, head turning, as she tried to keep an eye on all three of her children.
When it resumed, Elroy Doil was tightly gagged, and handcuffed to a heavy chair.
But I let her tow me like a balloon on a string, out the door and down corridors filled with kidnapped corpgeeks handcuffed to Facers in red robes.
The passenger wriggled his hands into a pair of latex gloves and then set about tying Jeremiah Freel up with plastic handcuffs.