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- noun Plural form of
top-chain .
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The boats were moored with top-chains; additional sentinels were posted on both ships; and guard-boats were stationed to row round them, in order to prevent the natives from cutting the cables.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 Robert Kerr 1784
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