"fetter" Definition

Definitions for the word "fetter" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. p. pr. & vb. n.
To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. p. pr. & vb. n.
To restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
1 shackle for the ankles. 2 (in pl.) Captivity. 3 restraint. v. 1 put into fetters. 2 restrict. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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