fetter meaning

• Noun: fetter  fetu(r)
  1. A shackle for the ankles or feet
     - hobble
  Verb: fetter  fetu(r)
  1. Restrain with fetters
     - shackle

  Derived forms: fettered, fetters, fettering

  Type of: bond, confine, hamper, hold, restrain, shackle, trammel

  Encyclopedia: Fetter

• They finally rise up and burst their fetters.
• They were bound up in fetters of conventionalism.
• World trade of political fetters is necessary.
• No man loves his fetters be they made of gold.
• No fetters are so intolerable as those of love.
• A clog or fetter on the equity of redemption is void.
• Gold, jewelry, works of art, enviable household furniture, are positive fetters.
• My soul, by the power of its wisdom, controls and chains you, though the fetters are unseen.
• In fact the exhortation seemed rather a superfluous one to a man with a great pair of iron fetters on his feet.
• The prisoner was put into the jail with fetters

• "fetter" meaning in Chinese: n. 〔pl.〕脚镣；囚禁；束缚，羁绊。 No man loves his fetters, be they ma...
• "fetter" meaning in Japanese: １fetter n. 足かせ; 拘束物, きずな. 【動詞＋】 ◆break one's fetters 足かせをこ...
• "fetter" meaning in Russian: 1) путы2) ножные кандалы Ex: in fetters закованный; скован...
• "fetter" meaning in French: n. chaîne, câble, fers (de prisonnier) v. enchaîner; li...