Chains and Strings

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Chains noun - Metal shackles; for hands or legs.

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Strings and chains are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Strings" instead the word "Chains" as a noun or a verb.

Strings noun - The section of an orchestra that plays stringed instruments.

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Chains and strings are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Chains" instead the word "Strings" as a noun or a verb.

Chain Pain: ChromeSkull gets Preston with some hooked chains (which he strings him up with) in 2; Tommy later uses one to choke ChromeSkull.

Source: Film / Laid to Rest
There are also poi, which are small weights attached to roughly arm-length strings, cords, or chains.

Source: Epic Flail
A play on this can be found in the Malazan Book of the Fallen, when Fiddler renames himself Strings to go incognito in House of Chains.

Source: Renamed the Same

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