Illustration: Outside a neighborhood gardening shed, a person kneels beside a bundle of bamboo plant supports and pulls the two ends of a cord tight. The cord loops around all the poles, gathering their previously loose ends into a compact bundle.

くくる

kukuru

to tie up, to bind

Example sentences

彼かれらは彼かれを括くくりつけた。
They tied him up.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
書類しょるいは全部ぜんぶテープでくくられて金庫きんこにおさめられた。
All the papers were taped up and kept in the safe.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
侍さむらいは治兵衛じへえの無礼ぶれいを戒いましめる為ために治兵衛じへえの手首てくびを格子こうしに括くくり付つけてしまう。
In order to caution Jihe’s rudeness, samurai bound Jihe’s wrists to a lattice.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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