handcuft

Updated: June 21, 2025

It was an ill omen, for in his absence the hard fate of the twenty pressed men who lay in the tender's hold, "all handcuft to each other," made an irresistible appeal to two women, pressed men's wives, who had been with singular lack of caution admitted on board.

J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson - The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore