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coffling

/ˈkɔflɪŋ/
verb
  1. The act of chaining or tying together in a line.
    • He was coffling the logs together to float them down the river.
    • Coffling the prisoners took most of the morning.
    • The soldiers were coffling the captured animals for transport.
noun
  1. The process or practice of forming a coffle.
    • Coffling was a common practice in the slave trade.
    • The documentary showed the brutal coffling of laborers.
    • Modern readers are horrified by the coffling depicted in the old texts.
Synonyms
binding
Antonyms
untyingfreeing
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