Meanings
- pluralplural of bracelet
- colloquialpluralplural onlyhandcuffs
"Sergeant," said Inspector Gilder, eyeing the black hands with wrath, "aren't you putting the bracelets on this fellow; he looks pretty dangerous."
1911, G. K. Chesterton, The Three Tools of Death1 more example
Of thirty bare yeares haue I twice twenty bin enraged, & of forty bin three tymes fifteene in durance soundlie caged, On yͤ lordlie loftes of Bedlam with stubble softe & dainty, braue braceletts Strong, sweet whips ding dong with wholesome hunger plenty
c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665)
- indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of bracelet
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