leg-iron
Example Sentences
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And on the ground beside her, when Joe picked her up, was a convict’s leg-iron which had been filed asunder.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Of course you can buy it back, Bob, but the attorney-general will have a leg-iron on you before the ink is dry on your check.
From The Long Chance by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)
Leastways, with Bobby there was his forty-five different stories to account for the leg-iron scars on his ankles, but with Old Dibs you hadn't even that to chew on.
From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Osbourne, Lloyd
He told Kim the story of the elephant with the leg-iron, as he had told it so often to the Jain priests.
From Kim by Kipling, Rudyard
The French marine still use a kind of leg-iron of the bilbo type.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
