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All fours
unknown · 78% connection
All four legs of a quadruped; or the two legs and two arms of a person.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shackle, confine, legs, fetter.
Amble
noun · 78% connection
A peculiar gait of a horse, in which both legs on the same side are moved at the same time, alternating with the legs on the other sid…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shackle, confine, legs, fetter.
Amphipoda
n. pl. · 78% connection
A numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shackle, confine, legs, fetter.
Anklet
noun · 78% connection
An ornament or a fetter for the ankle; an ankle ring.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shackle, confine, legs, fetter.
Band
verb · 78% connection
A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shackle, confine, legs, fetter.
Bestride
verb · 78% connection
To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shackle, confine, legs, fetter.
Bind
verb · 78% connection
To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shackle, confine, legs, fetter.
Bolt
noun · 78% connection
An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shackle, confine, legs, fetter.
Bond
noun · 78% connection
That which binds, ties, fastens, or confines, or by which anything is fastened or bound, as a cord, chain, etc.; a band; a ligament; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shackle, confine, legs, fetter.
Cage
verb · 78% connection
To confine in, or as in, a cage; to shut up or confine.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shackle, confine, legs, fetter.
Caterpillar
noun · 78% connection
The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shackle, confine, legs, fetter.
Chilopoda
n. pl. · 78% connection
One of the orders of myriapods, including the centipeds. They have a single pair of elongated legs attached laterally to each segment;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shackle, confine, legs, fetter.
Coop
verb · 78% connection
To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shackle, confine, legs, fetter.
Coupler
noun · 78% connection
One who couples; that which couples, as a link, ring, or shackle, to connect cars.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shackle, confine, legs, fetter.
Cramp
noun · 78% connection
That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shackle, confine, legs, fetter.
Curvet
noun · 78% connection
A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises h…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shackle, confine, legs, fetter.
Feathered
adjective · 78% connection
Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; or of hairs, as the legs of a setter dog.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shackle, confine, legs, fetter.
Fetter
noun · 78% connection
A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shackle, confine, legs, fetter.
