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Fetter   /fˈɛtər/   Listen
noun
Fetter  n.  (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. "(They) bound him with fetters of brass."
2.
Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint. "Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound."



verb
Fetter  v. t.  
1.
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."
2.
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."






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"Fetter" Quotes from Famous Books



... know, I have forgotten. I remember nothing but that I love you. I love none but you. I think only of you. I live for you alone. I know nothing, I wish for nothing but your love. Every fetter that binds me to my former life is broken. Now I am far from the world, utterly lost in you. I live in your heart and in your soul; I feel myself in every throb of your pulse; I do not touch you, and yet I am as close to you as if I held you in my arms, ...
— The Child of Pleasure • Gabriele D'Annunzio

... I learned to know you better, And you ceased to wile the victim at your feet, There was very little silk about the fetter, And 'twere flattery to say your sway was sweet: Nay, you made the light and airy shrine of beauty A centre for the most exacting duty, And the fealty of the family undoubting Met with flouting, As a tribute which was nothing but your due, As ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100., February 7, 1891 • Various

... brawl'd among the trees Stood still, the murmur of that song to hear; No green leaf stirr'd, and fetter'd seem'd the breeze. ...
— Romantic Ballads - translated from the Danish; and Miscellaneous Pieces • George Borrow

... order for that presently: Hermes awake, and haste to Neptunes realme, Whereas the Wind-god warring now with Fate, Besiege the ofspring of our kingly loynes, Charge him from me to turne his stormie powers, And fetter them in Vulcans sturdie brasse, That durst thus proudly wrong our kinsmans peace. Venus farewell, thy sonne shall be our care: Come Ganimed, we must about ...
— The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage • Christopher Marlowe

... Hebrew prophets and poets, Merodach, in taking to himself this group of stars, published his shame and folly. He had ascended into heaven, but his glittering belt was only his fetter; he was bound and gibbeted in the sky like a captive, a rebel, and who ...
— The Astronomy of the Bible - An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References - of Holy Scripture • E. Walter Maunder


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