Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
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- cot-caught:
Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- A line of people or animals fastened together, especially a chain of prisoners or slaves.
Verbi
- (transitive) To fasten (a line of people or animals) together.
Esimerkit
- The people of the coffle spent the day in drying such articles as were wet, and in cleaning ten pairs of ornamented pistols with shea-butter.
- If the explorer could make Kamalia he might be able to hook up with a slave coffle heading for the coast.
- Her litter came to a sudden halt at the cross street, to allow a coffle of slaves to shuffle across her path, urged along by the crack of an overseer's lash.
- It dominated late-night dinner conversation; it traveled along with marching columns of chained slaves, the infamous coffle lines that remain the iconic face of the domestic slave trade.
- Her litter came to a sudden halt at the cross street, to allow a coffle of slaves to shuffle across her path, urged along by the crack of an overseer’s lash.
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