enchain

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ENCHA'IN, verb transitive 1. To fasten with a chain; to bind or hold in chains; to hold in bondage. 2. To hold fast; to restrain; to confine. 3. To link together; to connect.
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