Sentence:  Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke....A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which <WSD>connected</WSD> the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To join (two other objects), or to join (one object) to (another object): to be a link between two objects, thereby attaching them to each other.