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In other words, chains are characterized by sequential, linear linking, in which the parts or interlocked end to end, clearly not the case in chain-armour or chain-link (for instance).
The most naive speaker of English realizes, without going into the details of their syntactosemantic relationships, that chain-armour and chainmail do not bear the same relationship to chain as chain-gang, chain-letter , and chain-stitch , that the chain in chain reaction is different from that in chain store (not `a store where one buys chains') and in chain-smoker (not `a person who smokes chains'), and that while chain drive and chain-saw are related because both are driven by chains, the use of chain in chain-link and chain-mail is semantically misleading, for the chief characteristic of a chain is its “one-dimensionality” while chain-link and chain-mail are, of course, two-dimensional--creating what might be considered a bent metaphor.
In the OUP system, chain-armour, chain bridge, chain drive, chain-gang, chain-gear, chain-letter, chain-link, chain-mail, chain reaction, chain-saw, chain-smoker, chain-stitch, chain store, chain-wale , and chain-wheel are all entered as subentries under chain.
To me the placement of chain-armour under chain strongly implies the meaning `armour made of parts linked together as in a chain'; but that is certainly not the case, as the definition at once makes clear.