leg-iron

Example Sentences

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And on the ground beside her, when Joe picked her up, was a convict’s leg-iron which had been filed asunder.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

The French marine still use a kind of leg-iron of the bilbo type.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various

Of course you can buy it back, Bob, but the attorney-general will have a leg-iron on you before the ink is dry on your check.

From The Long Chance by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)

He told Kim the story of the elephant with the leg-iron, as he had told it so often to the Jam priests.

From Kim by Kipling, Rudyard

Leastways, with Bobby there was his forty-five different stories to account for the leg-iron scars on his ankles, but with Old Dibs you hadn't even that to chew on.

From Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas by Osbourne, Lloyd