fetter

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: hobbleshackle

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

  1. a shackle for the ankles or feetSynonyms: hobble

Verb (1)

  1. restrain with fettersSynonyms: shackle
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Fetter \Fet"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fettered; p. pr. & vb. n. Fettering.]

1.To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind. [1913 Webster]

My heels are fettered, but my fist is free.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

2.To restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations. [1913 Webster]

My conscience! thou art fettered More than my shanks and wrists.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
Fetter \Fet"ter\ (f[e^]t"t[~e]r), n. [AS. fetor, feter; akin to OS. feter[=o]s, pl., OD. veter, OHG. fezzera, Icel. fj["o]turr, L. pedica, Gr. pe`dh, and to E. foot. [root] 77. See Foot.] [Chiefly used in the plural, fetters.]

1.A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle. [1913 Webster]

[They] bound him with fetters of brass.— Judg. xvi. 21.[1913 Webster]

2.Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint. [1913 Webster]

Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]
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