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coffle

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6 lettersPronunciation /ˈkɒfl̩/Sorted ceffloStarts with CEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A line of people or animals fastened together, especially a chain of prisoners or slaves.

Word origin

From Arabic قَافِلَة (qāfila, “caravan”). Doublet of cafila.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • I hear the wheeze of the slave-coffle, as the slaves march on, as the husky gangs pass on by twos and threes, fastened together with wrist-chains and ankle-chains,
  • If the explorer could make Kamalia he might be able to hook up with a slave coffle heading for the coast.

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