Fetter

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1. Noun

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.

2. Noun

Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.

3. Verb form

To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.

4. Verb form

To restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations.

5. Verb

restrain with fetters
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