Chaining
[tʃen]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Chain
Checker: Mimi
Examples
- I should think you'd be ashamed to spend all your life buying men and women, and chaining them, like cattle! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The chaining of the door behind her, as she went forth, disenchanted Lizzie Hexam of that first relief she had felt. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He sent a damping message to a solitary who had invented a new degree in saintliness by chaining himself to a rock in a narrow cave. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You hear him bolting and chaining the door within. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Checker: Mimi