iron chains
Heavy metal restraints
Iron chains are chains made of iron—heavy metal links used historically for restraint, imprisonment, or bondage.
The phrase often appears in contexts of slavery, captivity, or oppression: prisoners bound in iron chains, slaves shipped across the Atlantic in iron chains.
Figuratively, iron chains represent any severe constraint on freedom: throwing off the iron chains of tyranny.
- shacklesMetal bonds for prisoners
- fettersAnkle restraints, often metal
- boundSecured or destined
- rustyCorroded or unpracticed
- clankingHarsh metallic sound
dungeon · prison cell · prisoner · manacles · links · heavy · cold · metal · slavery · slave trade · bondage · restraint · anchor · forge · blacksmith · rattling · confinement · locked
- iron & steel itemsstainless steel, steel beams, steel pipes, steel bars, steel plates
- ironworkandirons, decorative ironwork, forged metal, ironwork, blacksmithing
- metalworkingwelding, casting, forging, smithing, smelting
iron chainsfreedom
Absence of constraint
liberty · liberation · emancipation · release · autonomy
iron chainswings
Limbs for flight
golden key · open door · weightlessness · flight · soaring
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