D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

chains

/(chāns)/ · IPA /t͡ʃeɪnz/
01 n. metal shackles connected by chains, used to bind hands or legs; as, he was kept two weeks in chains.
  1. 1.
    metal shackles connected by chains, used to bind hands or legs; as, he was kept two weeks in chains.
Syn. iron, irons, chain.