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Definition of Fetter

1. Verb. Restrain with fetters. "They want to fetter the prisoners "

Definition of Fetter

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.

2. v. t. To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.

Definition of Fetter

1. Noun. A chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal by its legs ''(usually in plural)''. ¹

2. Noun. Anything that restricts or restrains in any way. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To shackle or bind up with fetters ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To restrain or impede; to hamper. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fetter

1. to shackle [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: shackle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fetter

Literary usage of Fetter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. London and Its Environs: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1911)
"Opposite fetter Lane is Mitre Court, with the tavern once frequented by Johnson, ... In Bream's Buildings, which runs from fetter Lane to Chancery Lane, ..."

2. London, Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions by Henry Benjamin Wheatley, Peter Cunningham (1891)
"Let me see these four angels, and then forty shillings more I can borrow upon my gown in fetter Lane.—Ben Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour. ..."

3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1880)
"CASSELL, fetter, GALPIN & СОМ РАМ. Woman's Work and Worth. Animal Lite Described man as the ... В; <~з By Li» Bj U>- CASSELL, fetter, GALPIN & CO. v-rr.i . ..."

4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"Except in very extraordinary cases, all policies were written according to the fetter rates; and when there was a variance the general agent was. at first, ..."

5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1907)
"Like sever»! of your correspondents at the other references above noted, he associates Wesley with the Moi avian Chapel behind 32, fetter Lane, ..."

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