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Shackle :: Shackle (v. t.) To join by a link or chain, as railroad cars..

Chain Pump :: Chain pump () A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dipping below the water to be raised. The chain has at intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube through which the ascending part passes and carry the water to the point of discharge..

Chain Wheel :: Chain wheel () An inversion of the chain pump, by which it becomes a motor driven by water..

Alp :: Alp (n.) A very high mountain. Specifically, in the plural, the highest chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzerland, etc..

Clank :: Clank (v. t.) To cause to sound with a clank; as, the prisoners clank their chains..

Interchaining :: Interchaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Interchai.

Chapelet :: Chapelet (n.) A kind of chain pump, or dredging machine..

Bier :: Bier (n.) A count of forty threads in the warp or chain of woolen cloth.

Broken :: Broken (v. t.) Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish..

Chainlet :: Chainlet (n.) A small chain.

Degree :: Degree (n.) A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree..

Leptothrix :: Leptothrix (n.) Having the form of a little chain; -- applied to bacteria when, as in multiplication by fission, they form a chain of filiform individuals..

Chain :: Chain (v. t.) To keep in slavery; to enslave.

Fast :: Fast (n.) That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring..

Pallet :: Pallet (n.) One of the series of disks or pistons in the chain pump.

Trace :: Trace (n.) One of two straps, chains, or ropes of a harness, extending from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug..

Fasten :: Fasten (a.) To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window..

Gibbet :: Gibbet (n.) A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning..

Chain Wheel :: Chain wheel () A chain pulley, or sprocket wheel..

Gammon :: Gammon (v. t.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron..

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