handlocked

Verb

handlock (third-person singular simple present handlocks, present participle handlocking, simple past and past participle handlocked)

1. To restrain with, or as with, a handlock.
   • With respect to the discipline of the place, there appeared to be but little coercion: two patients only were manacled to their beds, and four were handlocked; the two that were manacled to their beds, and the four that were handlocked, had merely been so, according to the statement of the Keeper...1836, Selection of Reports and Papers of the House of Commons
2. To lock by means of a handlock.
   • She turns, and closes, and handlocks the door.1983, A. E. Van Vogt, Computerworld, page 130
3. To restrain by holding so as to immobilize the hand.
   • 'Vanity of vanities,' said Holdenough, smiling kindly at the same time, and still holding his recovered friend's arm inclosed and handlocked in his.1826, Sir Walter Scott, Woodstock

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