To fasten something with a chain.
To link multiple items together.
To connect as if with a chain, due to dependence, addiction, or other feelings
To measure a distance using a 66-foot long chain, as in land surveying.
To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
To obstruct the mouth of a river etc with a chain.
To obligate.
To secure someone with fetters.
To load and automatically run (a program).
To be chained to another data item.
A series of interconnected links of known length, used as a measuring device.
A series of stores or businesses with the same brand name.
A number of atoms in a series, which combine to form a molecule.
A unit of length equal to 22 yards. The length of a Gunter's surveying chain. The length of a cricket pitch. Equal to 20.12 metres, 4 rods, or 100 links.
That which confines, fetters, or secures; a bond.
A series of interconnected rings or links usually made of metal.
Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.
A long measuring tape.
A totally ordered set, especially a totally ordered subset of a poset.
A sequence of linked house purchases, each of which is dependent on the preceding and succeeding purchase (said to be "broken" if a buyer or seller pulls out).
A livery collar, a chain of office.
The warp threads of a web.
A series of interconnected things.
To bind with a rope, cord, thong, or chain, so as to fasten.
To utter censure or sarcastic language.
To throw out with a jerk or quickly.
To scold; or to satirize; to censure with severity.
To fall heavily, especially in the phrase lash down.
Used in phrasal verbs: lash back, lash out.
To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash.
To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one.
To ply the whip; to strike.
The thong or braided cord of a whip, with which the blow is given.
A quick and violent sweeping movement, as of an animal's tail; a swish.
A stroke of satire or sarcasm; an expression or retort that cuts or gives pain; a cut.
An attempt; a go at something.
In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.
A stroke with a whip, or anything pliant and tough, often given as a punishment.
A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.
Looseness between fitted parts, either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear).
Excellent, wonderful.
Drunk.
Soft, watery, wet.