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单词 leg iron
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Definition of leg iron in English:

leg iron

noun
usually leg irons
  • A metal band or chain placed around a prisoner's ankle as a restraint.

    he was tortured and held for long periods in leg irons
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He was in leg irons for two years and tortured repeatedly.
    • In court I was shackled in leg irons with chains around my waist.
    • And even though he had been bound with chains and leg irons and kept under guard, he smashed whatever bound him.
    • While he was being interviewed by a British officer, Rasul was handcuffed from behind and had leg irons on.
    • He also told of how he had been stripped naked and interrogated, beaten and forced to sleep in handcuffs and leg irons.
    • According to Amnesty International these prisoners are often held in leg irons also made in Britain.
    • British psychiatrists viewed manacles and leg irons as barbaric symbols of the asylum's dubious past.
    • Makoma, who was handcuffed and in leg irons, was allowed to ask his family whether they had organised a lawyer for him.
    • Then he was shackled in handcuffs, leg irons, and a belly chain and taken to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
    • He began performing magic in amusement parks in his teens, developing a handcuff escape act and increasingly elaborate routines with leg irons, coffins and water tanks.
    • Every time he left his cell, including for medical appointments, Thomas had to wear a body belt and was shackled with handcuffs and leg irons.
    • Knox, a pain management specialist who had been practicing medicine in Roanoke for seven years, was dragged out in handcuffs and leg irons.
    • Martin is being held in one of Bangkok's worst prisons and spent his first two years in leg irons.
    • Everywhere we go we are put in belly chains, handcuffs and leg irons.
    • They were cuffed and shackled in leg irons before they were moved.
    • Stockdale was imprisoned for more than seven years, four of them in solitary confinement, two in leg irons.
    • Some were kept for months in cells illuminated 24 hours a day and were escorted in handcuffs, leg irons and waist chains.
    • Some were held in lockdowns for 23 hours a day, and then taken from their cells bound in handcuffs, leg irons and waist chains.
    • The guards place the leg irons and the cuffs on Trember.
    • Guards slap on handcuffs and the inmates shuffle forward to be placed in leg irons.
    Synonyms
    shackles, manacles, handcuffs, irons, leg irons, chains, bonds
 
 

Definition of leg iron in US English:

leg iron

nounleɡ ˈī(ə)rn
usually leg irons
  • A metal band or chain placed around a prisoner's ankle as a restraint.

    he was tortured and held for long periods in leg irons
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He began performing magic in amusement parks in his teens, developing a handcuff escape act and increasingly elaborate routines with leg irons, coffins and water tanks.
    • They were cuffed and shackled in leg irons before they were moved.
    • The guards place the leg irons and the cuffs on Trember.
    • Guards slap on handcuffs and the inmates shuffle forward to be placed in leg irons.
    • In court I was shackled in leg irons with chains around my waist.
    • According to Amnesty International these prisoners are often held in leg irons also made in Britain.
    • Then he was shackled in handcuffs, leg irons, and a belly chain and taken to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
    • Martin is being held in one of Bangkok's worst prisons and spent his first two years in leg irons.
    • He also told of how he had been stripped naked and interrogated, beaten and forced to sleep in handcuffs and leg irons.
    • He was in leg irons for two years and tortured repeatedly.
    • British psychiatrists viewed manacles and leg irons as barbaric symbols of the asylum's dubious past.
    • Makoma, who was handcuffed and in leg irons, was allowed to ask his family whether they had organised a lawyer for him.
    • Every time he left his cell, including for medical appointments, Thomas had to wear a body belt and was shackled with handcuffs and leg irons.
    • And even though he had been bound with chains and leg irons and kept under guard, he smashed whatever bound him.
    • Some were held in lockdowns for 23 hours a day, and then taken from their cells bound in handcuffs, leg irons and waist chains.
    • Stockdale was imprisoned for more than seven years, four of them in solitary confinement, two in leg irons.
    • Some were kept for months in cells illuminated 24 hours a day and were escorted in handcuffs, leg irons and waist chains.
    • Everywhere we go we are put in belly chains, handcuffs and leg irons.
    • While he was being interviewed by a British officer, Rasul was handcuffed from behind and had leg irons on.
    • Knox, a pain management specialist who had been practicing medicine in Roanoke for seven years, was dragged out in handcuffs and leg irons.
    Synonyms
    shackles, manacles, handcuffs, irons, leg irons, chains, bonds
 
 
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