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Entry 4 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Fetter

/(fĕt"tẽr)/ · Fet·ter · IPA /ˈfet.ə/
01 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 motio…
  1. 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.[Chiefly used in the plural, fetters.]
    “[They] bound him with fetters of brass.” — Judg. xvi. 21.
  2. 2.
    Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.
    “Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound.” — Dryden.
02 v. t. To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.
  1. 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.” — Milton.
  2. 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.” — Shak.