CHAIN

Definitions

1. 1. To fasten, bind, or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind securely, as with a chain; as, to chain a bulldog. Chained behind the hostile car. Prior.
2. 2. To keep in slavery; to enslave. And which more blest who chained his country, say Or he whose virtue sighed to lose a day Pope.
3. 3. To unite closely and strongly. And in this vow do chain my soul to thine. Shak.
4. 4. To measure with the chain.
5. 5. To protect by drawing a chain across, as a harbor.