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Definition of Chain up
1. Verb. Tie up with chains. "They want to chain up the prisoners "; "Chain up the prisoners"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chain Up
Literary usage of Chain up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson ...: With Original Anecdotes of by Lucy Hutchinson, John Hutchinson (1846)
"... and pride enough to desire to break the bonds of slavery, whereby the king
endeavoured to chain up a free people ; and upon these scores, appearing high ..."
2. Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, Govenor of Nottingham Castle and Town by Lucy Apsley Hutchinson (1908)
"... and pride enough to desire to break the bonds of slavery, whereby the king
endeavoured to chain up a free people; and upon these scores, appearing high ..."
3. Once a Week by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1866)
"Dis ere foot bring dat chain up." " The old fellow, when he got lus chain and
ring back, embraced me, embraced Scipio, swore by the Prophet ho was our slave ..."
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