Usually means: Imprison or restrain someone effectively.
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  1. lay by the heels: Wiktionary
  2. lay by the heels: Dictionary.com
  3. Lay by the Heels: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  4. lay by the heels: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ verb:  (dated, idiomatic) To fetter, to shackle; to imprison.

Similar:
fetter, enshackle, enfetter, chain, shackle, hamper, hamshackle, befetter, span, gyve, more...

Opposite:
stand upright, stand tall, stand straight

Phrases:
to lay by the heels, more...

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Similar:
fetter, enshackle, enfetter, chain, shackle, hamper, hamshackle, befetter, span, gyve, more...

Opposite:
stand upright, stand tall, stand straight

Phrases:
to lay by the heels, more...



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