Coffle
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈkɒfl̩/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Coffle is a noun meaning A line of people or animals fastened together, especially a chain of prisoners or slaves.
Meaning
A line of people or animals fastened together, especially a chain of prisoners or slaves.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To fasten (a line of people or animals) together.
Example Sentences
If the explorer could make Kamalia he might be able to hook up with a slave coffle heading for the coast.
The people of the coffle spent the day in drying such articles as were wet, and in cleaning ten pairs of ornamented pistols with shea-butter.
Her litter came to a sudden halt at the cross street, to allow a coffle of slaves to shuffle across her path, urged along by the crack of an overseer's lash.
I hear the wheeze of the slave-coffle, as the slaves march on, as the husky gangs pass on by twos and threes, fastened together with wrist-chains and ankle-chains,
Word Forms
- coffles
- coffling
- coffled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fetter, captivity, chain, crew, huddle, enchainment.
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