Fetter

Quick meaning: Fetter is a noun meaning (usually plural) A chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal, often by its legs.

Meaning

(usually plural) A chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal, often by its legs.

More Meanings

1. (figurative) Anything that restricts or restrains.
2. (transitive) To shackle or bind up with fetters.
3. (transitive) To restrain or impede; to hamper.

Example Sentences

Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound.

That was the turning-point of my life. I broke my fetters, and I fought a hard fight for a new career …

He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.

The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!

Word Forms

• fetters
• fettering
• fettered

Synonyms for fetter

Depending on context, synonyms include hobble, shackle.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include shackle, hobble, tie, chain, hamper, lane.

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