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Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

Much worn in the East as ornaments for the ankles, sometimes with bells (Isa. 3:16-20¹⁶Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet: ¹⁷Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret parts. ¹⁸In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, ¹⁹The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers, ²⁰The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings, (Isaiah 3:16‑20)). [BELLS.]

Concise Bible Dictionary:

The Hebrew word ekes signifies “fetter” or “ankle band.” It is translated “tinkling ornaments” for the feet in Isaiah 3:18,¹⁸In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon, (Isaiah 3:18) as part of the dress of the haughty daughters of Zion, who liked to make a tinkling noise when they walked; but God would bring to naught all such adornings. The same Hebrew word is translated “stocks” in Proverbs 7:22²²He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; (Proverbs 7:22).