Definition of fetter

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Fetter (p. pr. & vb. n.) To restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations..

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Garnish :: Garnish (v. t.) Fetters.
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..
Chain :: Chain (n.) That which confines, fetters, or secures, as a chain; a bond; as, the chains of habit..
Gyve :: Gyve (v. t.) To fetter; to shackle; to chain.
Unfetter :: Unfetter (v. t.) To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind..
Slang :: Slang (n.) A fetter worn on the leg by a convict.
Anklet :: Anklet (n.) An ornament or a fetter for the ankle; an ankle ring.
Garnish :: Garnish (v. t.) To fit with fetters.
Hobble :: Hobble (v. t.) To fetter by tying the legs; to hopple; to clog.
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..
Hamper :: Hamper (n.) A shackle; a fetter; anything which impedes.
Iron :: Iron (v. t.) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.
Hopple :: Hopple (n.) A fetter for horses, or cattle, when turned out to graze; -- chiefly used in the plural..
Chainless :: Chainless (a.) Having no chain; not restrained or fettered.
Downgyved :: Downgyved (a.) Hanging down like gyves or fetters.
Fettered :: Fettered (a.) Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking..
Span :: Span (v. t.) To fetter, as a horse; to hobble..
Shackle :: Shackle (n.) Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter..
Fetterless :: Fetterless (a.) Free from fetters.
Fetter :: 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..
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