Definition of "leg-iron" [leg-iron]

• A fetter for the leg. Dickens, Great Expectations, xvi. (noun)
• In car-building, a wrought-iron forging attached to the sole-bar, and supporting the foot-boards. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "He told Kim the story of the elephant with the leg-iron, as he had told it so often to the Jam priests."
• "It hurt, it burned like a red-hot leg-iron, and he screamed."
• "Nofemela, dressed in a blue and white tracksuit and wearing leg-iron belts, was brought to the court from the Pretoria Central"