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safety chains

safety chains is the plural of safety chain.

Meaning of safety chain

Noun

safety chain (plural safety chains)

  1. A normally slack chain for preventing excessive movement between a truck and a car body during a slue.
  2. An auxiliary watchchain secured to the clothes, usually out of sight, to prevent stealing of the watch.
  3. A chain of sheet metal links with an elongated hole through each broad end, made by doubling the first link on itself, slipping the next link through and doubling, and so on.
  4. A security chain that allows a door to be opened to see who is on the other side without allowing them to enter.

Questions about safety chains

What is safety chains the plural of?
Safety chains is the plural of safety chain.

Words near safety chains in the dictionary

  1. safety cards
  2. safety cars
  3. safety catch
  4. safety catches
  5. safety chain
  6. safety chains
  7. safety clause
  8. safety clauses
  9. safety coffin
  10. safety coffins
  11. safety curtain

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Adapted from Wiktionary: safety chains (page history and authors); safety chain (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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