Definition of "chain gang" []

• A group of convicts chained together, especially for outdoor labor. (noun)

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• "In 1810 he was sent to Van Diemen’s Land, put in a chain gang and set to hew a road through the iron-hard sandstone country behind Hobart."
• "In a chain gang they had been driven from beyond the Mississippi to the plantation of Archy B. Williams."