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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Fetter \Fet"ter\, n. [AS. fetor, feter; akin to OS. feter[?]s, pl., OD. veter, OHG. fezzera, Icel. fj[94]turr, L. pedi[?]a, Gr. [?], and to E. foot. [root] 77. See {Foot}.] [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. --Judg. xvi. 21. 2. Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint. Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound. --Dryden. | |
