in Ship-Building, are strong links or plates of iron, the lower ends of which are bolted through the ship's side to the timbers.

Hanging in CHAINS, a kind of punishment inflicted on murderers. By stat. 25 Geo. I. c. 37, the judge shall direct such to be executed on the next day but one, unless Sunday intervene; and their bodies to be delivered to the surgeons to be dissected and anatomized; and he may direct them afterwards to be hung in chains. During the interval between sentence and execution, the prisoner shall be kept alone, and fed only with bread and water. The judge, however, hath power to reprieve the execution, and relax the other restraints of the act.