handlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handlocks
Etymology: From hand + lock.
Senses: examples: text: This efficient assembly is mounted on anti-vibration points, and handlocks enable the trolley to be rigidly fixed in pre-set and intermediate focusing positions.
ref: 1958, The British Journal of Photography Annual, page 368:
text: Rowe International, Inc., subsidiary of Triangle Industries, Inc., Whippany, N. J. BBC 8 combination coin and bill changer, features roller take-in feed, modular coin tubes, twist-out handlock that can be recombinated on location.
ref: 1968, Vend - Volume 22, Part 2, page 80:
text: "Handlock" deck covers are available for access to tank cleaning holes and other types of openings on barges, tankers and cargo vessels. They can be installed by setting a cover down over a hole and turning the handlock.
ref: 1969, Marine Engineering/log - Volume 74, page 127:
glosses: A locking mechanism that operates by hand.
examples: text: Hugh MacGerrald, being duly sworn and examined, deposeth that he was apprehended by William Graeme, the Provost Marshal, who kept him seven days in his custody, tied with a handlock, and two several times the said Graham threatened to hang this examt. if he would not do service against Phelim MacPheagh, one time sending for a ladder, and another time shewing a tree, whereupon he would hang him and the ropes and withes, but the examt. making protestation of having no matter to lay to the said Phelim's charge did choose rather to suffer than to impeach him without a cause.
ref: 1884, Mary Agnes Hickson, Ireland in the seventeenth century:
text: The priest, being put into a handlock, is sent with a captain and a good guard of soldiers about this business, who guided them to a wood, six miles from the castle, by reason of thick briars and thorns almost impassable, in the midst whereof there is a hollow cave within the ground, not much unlike, by description, Cacus's den, or the mouth of Avernus, in which desolate place they found that old woman and this young child, whom they brought to the governor, and the priest and child were shortly after sent to the President.
ref: 1896, Sir Thomas Stafford, Standish O'Grady, Pacata Hibernia: Or, A History of the Wars in Ireland During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth:
text: On the screen near the door is a handlock, so shaped as to fasten a man's hand whilst water, or perchance ale, was poured down the sleeve of his doublet.
ref: 1898, James Samuel Stone, Woods and Dales of Derbyshire, page 116:
glosses: A restraint that attaches to the wrist, especially a shackle or handcuff.
examples: text: Lisa gets me in a handlock and starts to kiss me.
ref: 1987, Larry Bograd, Bernie Entertaining, page 100:
text: Slide air splint up your arm then grasp victim in a handlock while assisting first aider to apply traction to the arm.
ref: 1988, Brent Q. Hafen, First Aid for Health Emergencies, page 292:
text: He had him in a handlock but had not yet succeeded in placing his arm around behind him for handcuffing.
ref: 1989, New York (State)., New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs:
glosses: A hold for restraining another person by immobilizing their hand.
examples: text: Typical hypnotic phenomena such as handlock, involuntary body immobility, and selective amnesia were produced by direct suggestion alone, without trance induction, although trance subjects showed more of the phenomena.
ref: 1963, Ernest Adolf Spiegel, Progress in Neurology and Psychiatry, page 616:
glosses: Immobilization of the hand.