coffle

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  1. noun A group of animals, prisoners, or slaves chained together in a line.
  2. transitive verb To fasten together in a coffle.

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  • The last prisoner in the coffle was the tailor, a gray-haired, elderly man with a wrinkled face. —  The Magic of Krynn
  • They were then placed in wrist and throat coffle, their left wrists linked by one chain, their fair throats by another, and led away. —  Explorers Of Gor
  • Sometimes the coffle is simply arranged in order of descending height. —  Dancer Of Gor
  • He'll want nothing to do with this coffle, after they've shown such bad temperament. " —  Ship Of Magic
  • The girls in the coffle were now all awake. —  Explorers Of Gor
 

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  1. Arabic qāfila, caravan, feminine active participle of qafala, to close, return; see qpl in Semitic roots.

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  1. Also written caufle and kaffle, and in the general sense ‘caravan’ also cafilah, caffilah, kafilah, kafila, from Arabic kāfila, later Persian Hindustani kāfila, a caravan: see kafila.
 

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/ˈkɑfl/
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