Verb. (thieves’).—To fit with fetters: to handcuff.
Garret, subs. (common).—1. The head; cockloft (q.v.); or upper storey
(q.v.). For synonyms, see crumpet.
1625. Bacon, Apothgm, No. 17. My Lord St. Albans said that wise
Nature did Never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories
high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty
heads.
1811. Lexicon Balatronicum, s.v.
1837. Barham, Ingold. Leg. What’s called the claret Flew over the
garret.