Fetter /(fĕt"tẽr)/
Fet·ter
Fetter
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. [Chiefly used in the plural, fetters.]
[They] bound him with fetters of brass.
-
Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.
Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound.
Fetter
v. t.
-
To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.
My heels are fettered, but my fist is free.
-
To restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations.
My conscience! thou art fettered More than my shanks and wrists.