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n. A chain or shackle for the ankles or feet.

n. Something that serves to restrict; a restraint.

v. To put fetters on; shackle.

v. To restrict the freedom of. See Synonyms at hamper1.

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

n. Anything that restricts or restrains in any way.

v. To shackle or bind up with fetters

v. To restrain or impede; to hamper.

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 motion; a bond; a shackle.

n. Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.

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

v. To restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain.

n. A chain or bar by which a person or an animal is confined by the foot, so that he is either made fast to an object or deprived of free motion by having one foot attached to the other; a shackle.

n. Anything that confines or restrains from motion; a restraint; a check.

n. Synonyms Gyve, Manacle, etc. See shackle, n.

To put fetters upon; shackle or confine, as with fetters; hence, to bind; confine; restrain.

v. restrain with fetters

n. a shackle for the ankles or feet

"They are as stanch and resolved in their hatred of the domestic institution as when we abolished the accursed slave traffic; as when, at a vast sacrifice, both of money and of colonial prosperity, we struck the last fetter from the last English slave; as when the women of England, half a million strong, sent out a generous if not a wise remonstrance to the women of America."

fettered    fettering    fetters   

bond    hamper    trammel    shackle   

handcuff    manacle    shackle   

bond    shackle    restraint    bind    confine    enchain   

better    bettor    debtor    detter    etter    fretter    getter    jetter    letter    netter   

enlightenment-factor    lampposts    shackle    handcuff    armlet    half-sick    half-animal