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slave chains

slave chains is the plural of slave chain.

Meaning of slave chain

Noun

slave chain (plural slave chains)

  1. A long chain to which slaves were fastened, especially when being transported.
    • Then Tarzan turned his attention to the fifty women and youths chained neck to neck on the long slave chain.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 136
  2. A series of coupled slave units in a master-slave system.

Questions about slave chains

What is slave chains the plural of?
Slave chains is the plural of slave chain.

Words near slave chains in the dictionary

  1. slave breaker
  2. slave breakers
  3. slave camp
  4. slave camps
  5. slave chain
  6. slave chains
  7. slave clock
  8. slave clocks
  9. Slave Coast
  10. slave code
  11. slave codes

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