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n. A fetter or shackle attached at the ankle.
Usage examples of "leg irons".
ONE morning early in May, Stewart and I were freed from our leg irons and conducted t-o the place used as the sick-bay on the lower deck.
We called to those outside, begging and pleading that we might not be forgotten, and some of the men began wrenching at their leg irons with the fury of despair.
Then she crept back under the cannon, into the darkness that was her only privacy, and sat with her legs folded under her so she could easily reach the links of her leg irons.
Finally one of men, demoralized by injuries and threats, told him through Natalya's translation that the man called Gregori Lohmatski had been taken out of the convoy only a few hours ago, this very morning, freed of his leg irons and put on a horse, then hurried on to Irkutsk in the midst of a special escort formed by a squad of cavalry.
For just a moment Sherwood had the impression that the young man (who had somehow freed himself of his leg irons with the speed of a magician) was about to click his ill-shod heels and bow.
True, each pair of men is shackled together with leg irons, but they get plenty of exercise--they even manage to dance.
True, each pair of men is shackled together with leg irons, but they get plenty of exercise—.
Since it would have taken a brace of cannon, leg irons, and several armed men to get him there, I contented myself with fishing up a particularly meaty ladle of stew and plopping it into his bowl.