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lay by the heels

verb

Definitions

  1. To fetter, to shackle

    To fetter, to shackle; to imprison.

    • As I live, If the king blame me for 't, I'll lay ye all By the heels , and suddenly; and on your heads Clap round fines , for neglect
    • [M]y Lord Chief Justice Keeling hath laid the constable by the heels to answer it next Sessions: which is a horrid shame.
    • I […]could not but wonder that none of the Middlesex justices took care to lay some of them by the heels.

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