Definition of fetter

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Fetter (p. pr. & vb. n.) To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.

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Fetter :: Fetter (n.) Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.
Anklet :: Anklet (n.) An ornament or a fetter for the ankle; an ankle ring.
Hopple :: Hopple (n.) A fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze; -- chiefly used in the plural..
Fetter :: Fetter (p. pr. & vb. n.) To restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations..
Unshackle :: Unshackle (v. t.) To loose from shackles or bonds; to set free from restraint; to unfetter.
Downgyved :: Downgyved (a.) Hanging down like gyves or fetters.
Chainless :: Chainless (a.) Having no chain; not restrained or fettered.
Shackle :: Shackle (v. t.) To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain..
Span :: Span (v. t.) To fetter, as a horse; to hobble..
Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To fasten or secure with, or as with, a bolt or bolts, as a door, a timber, fetters; to shackle; to restrain..
Iron :: Iron (n.) Fetters; chains; handcuffs; manacles.
Chain :: Chain (n.) That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit..
Fettered :: Fettered (a.) Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking..
Enfetter :: Enfetter (v. t.) To bind in fetters; to enchain.
Hamper :: Hamper (n.) A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
Iron :: Iron (v. t.) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.
Bolt :: Bolt (n.) An iron to fasten the legs of a prisoner; a shackle; a fetter.
Band :: Band (v. t.) A fillet, strap, or any narrow ligament with which a thing is encircled, or fastened, or by which a number of things are tied, bound together, or confined; a fetter..
Slang :: Slang (n.) A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.
Unfetter :: Unfetter (v. t.) To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind..
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