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Handcuff   /hˈændkˌəf/   Listen
Handcuff

noun
1.
Shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist; usually used in pairs.  Synonyms: cuff, handlock, manacle.






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"Handcuff" Quotes from Famous Books



... authorize you to make him prisoner and bring him over with you. Knock him down if he attempt resistance. You may as well take a pair of handcuffs with you and a short coil of rope. The object of the rope is, that if you capture any one on your way to the village you had better handcuff him, gag him, and tie him up securely to a tree or some other object at a distance from the road, and pick him up as you come back. I need hardly say that you are not to go into any house in the village, not to speak to any one ...
— One of the 28th • G. A. Henty

... suggested exist only in imagination. The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, insult, menace—the handcuff, the lash—the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives—the weary trudging in droves along the common highways, the labour of body, the despair of mind, the sickness of heart—these are ...
— Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation - 1838-1839 • Frances Anne Kemble

... slave-trade. "When by one means and another a dealer had gathered twenty or more likely young Negro men and girls, he would bring them forth from their cells; would huddle the women and young children into a cart or wagon; would handcuff the men in pairs, the right hand of one to the left hand of another; make the handcuffs fast to a long chain which passed between each pair of slaves, and would start his procession southward."[1] It is not strange that several of the unfortunate people committed ...
— A Social History of the American Negro • Benjamin Brawley



Words linked to "Handcuff" :   fetter, shackle, hamper, cuff, trammel, bond



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