You didn't find a man chained to the wall?
In prison he was chained and treated with great severity.
The wood is placed in a running stream and so tied or chained down as to be entirely submerged.
Baird's mother, on hearing that her son and other prisoners were in fetters, is said to have remarked, "God help the chiel chained to oor Davie."
His voice was quiet and confident, and she felt like a visitor in his throne room rather than a woman talking to a stranger chained to her basement wall.
