Handcuff

Noun

 * 1) One ring of a locking fetter for the hand or one pair.

Synonyms

 * manacle

Hypernyms

 * fetter
 * shackle

Verb

 * 1) To apply handcuffs to; to manacle. - Hay (1754)
 * 2)  to restrain or restrict.
 * Dang, I’m handcuffed by these regulations. I’d like to help but it’d be illegal.

Thesaurus
Oregon boat, anchor, bilbo, bind, bond, bonds, bridle, camisole, chain, chains, collar, cuffs, deflate, disarm, enchain, entrammel, fasten, fetter, gag, gyve, gyves, halter, hamper, hamstring, handcuffs, hobble, hobbles, hog-tie, hopple, hopples, irons, knock out, lash, leading strings, leash, make fast, manacle, moor, muzzle, paralyze, peg down, picket, pillory, pin down, pinion, prostrate, put in irons, reins, restrain, restraint, restraints, rope, secure, shackle, silence, stocks, straightjacket, strait-waistcoat, straitjacket, strangle, stranglehold, strap, tether, throttle, tie, tie down, tie up, trammel, trammels, truss up, yoke

Etymology
1775, from.

Possibly influenced by handcops:, from hand: + cops:, but due to lack of continuity (centuries between Old English and modern term), generally analyzed as a re-invention.

Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 手銬, 手铐
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: käsiraudat
 * French:
 * German: Handschelle
 * Greek: χειροπέδες
 * Hungarian: bilincs


 * Luhya:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: håndjern, handjern
 * Nynorsk: handjarn, handjern
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: наручник
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:

Verb

 * Dutch: in de boeien slaan, handboeien omdoen, boeien
 * Esperanto: mankateni
 * Finnish: panna käsirautoihin


 * French: enchaîner, passer les menottes à,
 * Portuguese: algemar
 * Spanish: