coffle
- noun
- /ˈkɔfəl/
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- As the cattle were rounded up, they moved quietly together in a tight coffle toward the holding pen.
Examples
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Conscious hours later, he found himself in a coffle, bound at his neck to thirty others, his queen among them, her flesh scarred and bloodied.
Fiction book (1996) -
During the historic reenactment, the actors portrayed enslaved people traveling in a coffle to demonstrate the harsh realities of that era.
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Did you raise them to be driven off in a coffle in chains?
Blog text (17) -
And nothing when the coffle reached the barracoon.
Fiction book (1996) -
A circular ditch where a coffle marked time on a treadmill.
Fiction book (1996) -
The prison guards marched the prisoners in a coffle, their chains clinking as they went.
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Etymology
Coffle came from language used by traders for a 'bundle' or group of people or animals moved together in old times. A helpful way to remember it is to think of cuff, because a coffle is a line of people or animals 'tied together' for transport.