Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fetter for the leg. Dickens, Great Expectations, xvi.
- noun In car-building, a wrought-iron forging attached to the sole-bar, and supporting the foot-boards.
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Examples
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He told Kim the story of the elephant with the leg-iron, as he had told it so often to the Jam priests.
Kim 2003
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It hurt, it burned like a red-hot leg-iron, and he screamed.
Ship Of Magic Hobb, Robin 1998
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Nofemela, dressed in a blue and white tracksuit and wearing leg-iron belts, was brought to the court from the Pretoria Central
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Deaf wants you and me because we got these leg-iron scars on our ankles.
TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989
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Deaf wants you and me because we got these leg-iron scars on our ankles.
TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989
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Deaf wants you and me because we got these leg-iron scars on our ankles.
TWO FOR TEXAS James Lee Burke 1989
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But the strange transport got safely over, and Clisby, shaking out that bronco into a long gallop, found his man in the home of a settler, engaged in filing off the leg-iron in order to be able to get away more swiftly.
Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police R.G. MacBeth
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He told Kim the story of the elephant with the leg-iron, as he had told it so often to the Jam priests.
Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900
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See, Sahib, where Pudmini's leg-iron cut the bark of that tree!
The Jungle Book. 1893
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Once they started and put their ears forward when they heard the chinking of a leg-iron in the forest, but it was Pudmini, Petersen Sahib's pet elephant, her chain snapped short off, grunting, snuffling up the hillside.
The Jungle Book. 1893
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