slave chain

English

Noun

slave chain (plural slave chains)

  1. A long chain to which slaves were fastened, especially when being transported.
    • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 136:
      Then Tarzan turned his attention to the fifty women and youths chained neck to neck on the long slave chain.
  2. A series of coupled slave units in a master-slave system.
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