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  • noun Plural form of chaining.

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Examples

  • In other words, do you handle the chainings and everything?

    CNN Transcript Jan 22, 2003 2003

  • In other words, do you handle the chainings and everything?

    CNN Transcript Jan 22, 2003 2003

  • On the other hand, some owners, who prefer more obvious restraints for their women, who are, after all, slaves, use flatbedded wagons with mounted slave bars of various sorts, sometimes with intricate chainings or couplings.

    Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

  • On the other hand, some owners, who prefer more obvious restraints for their women, who are, after all, slaves, use flatbedded wagons with mounted slave bars of various sorts, sometimes with intricate chainings or couplings.

    Magicians of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1988

  • This sort of thing is almost second nature with Goreans in the tyings and chainings of slaves.

    Kajira Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1983

  • We want them to know that a knowledge of their whippings, their scourgings, their brandings, their chainings, is not confined to their plantations, but that some negro of theirs has broken loose from his chains (loud applause) -- has burst through the dark incrustation of slavery, and is now exposing their deeds of deep damnation to the gaze of the Christian people of England.

    Uncle Tom's Companions: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves. 1911

  • We want them to know that a knowledge of their whippings, their scourgings, their brandings, their chainings, is not confined to their plantations, but that some Negro of theirs has broken loose from his chains -- has burst through the dark incrustation of slavery, and is now exposing their deeds of deep damnation to the gaze of the christian people of England.

    My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1856

  • We want them to know that a knowledge of their whippings, their scourgings, their brandings, their chainings, is not confined to their plantations, but that some Negro of theirs has broken loose from his chains -- has burst through the dark incrustation of slavery, and is now exposing their deeds of deep damnation to the gaze of the christian people of England.

    My Bondage and My Freedom. By Frederick Douglass. With and Introduction. By James M`Cune Smith. 1855

  • We want them to know that a knowledge of their whippings, their scourgings, their brandings, their chainings, is not confined to their plantations, but that some negro of theirs has broken loose from his chains -- has burst through the dark incrustation of slavery, and is now exposing their deeds of deep damnation to the gaze of the christian people of England.

    My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I.--Life as a Slave. Part II.--Life as a Freeman 1850

  • Just posting some useful command chainings I use at work.

    LinuxQuestions.org mufy 2010

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