lay by the heels
English
Verb
lay by the heels
- (dated) To fetter; to shackle; to imprison.
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- 1668 October 23, Samuel Pepys, Diary, 1858, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S., Volume 4, 6th Edition, page 39,
- […] my Lord Chief Justice Keeling hath laid the constable by the heels to answer it next Sessions: which is a horrid shame.