заковывать — meaning in English

English meaning

• fetter noun A chain or similar restraint used to bind a person or animal, usually by the legs.
• iron noun A common, silvery-grey metal that rusts and is attracted to magnets; the main ingredient of steel.
• manacle noun A metal restraint locked around a person's wrist or ankle to stop them moving freely, such as handcuffs.

Senses

заковывать is used for these senses in English:

• fetter (transitive) To shackle or bind up with fetters.
• iron (transitive, archaic) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.
• manacle (ambitransitive) To confine with manacles.

fetter — full definition

1. noun A chain or similar restraint used to bind a person or animal, usually by the legs.
2. verb To restrain or hamper someone or something.

iron — full definition

1. noun A common, silvery-grey metal that rusts and is attracted to magnets; the main ingredient of steel.
2. noun A small electrical appliance with a hot, flat base, used to smooth wrinkles out of clothes.
3. verb To smooth clothing or fabric using a heated iron.
4. adj Extremely strong, tough, or unyielding, used figuratively.

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