OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 18034

coffle

/ˈkɒfl̩/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cáfila
A line of people or animals fastened together, especially a chain of prisoners or slaves.
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,
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.
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