手て錠じょう

noun

handcuffs; manacles

Standard modern term for handcuffs used by police, security, or in metaphorical restraint contexts.

• 警けい察さつ官かんが容よう疑ぎ者しゃに手て錠じょうをかけた。

  The police officer put handcuffs on the suspect.

• 彼かれは手て錠じょうをかけられたまま護ご送そう車しゃに乗のせられた。

  He was put into the transport vehicle while still handcuffed.

noun

confinement in chains (Edo-era punishment)

Only when written 手鎖 · Only with reading てぐさり

Historical term for a judicial corporal punishment during the Edo period where the offender was confined with hand chains. Read てぐさり and written 手鎖.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいには、手て鎖ぐさりという刑けい罰ばつがあった。

  In the Edo period, there was a punishment called 手鎖 (てぐさり).