handcuff

(hand’kuf), v. ¢ [« handcuff, n.] To of Fife and Lothian;... we take our wives, like our manacle; restrain by or as if by placing hand horses, upon trial. When we are handfasted, as we term euffs upon the wrists. it, we are man and wife for a year and a day — that space gone by, each may choose another mate, or, at their plea- Tf he cannot carry an ox, like Milo, he will not, like Milo, sure, may call the priest to marry them for life—and this be handcuffed in the oak by attempting to rend it. # we call handfasting. Scott, Monastery, xxv. W. Hay, On Deformity, p. 26. handfastt+ (hand’fast), a. [Cf. Sw. handfast =