FETTERED

fettered, shackled

(adjective) bound by chains fastened around the ankles

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

fettered

simple past tense and past participle of fetter

Adjective

fettered (comparative more fettered, superlative most fettered)

Bound by chains or shackles.

(by extension) Restricted.

(zoology) Of the feet: bent backward and apparently unfit for walking.

Synonyms

• (bound by chains): bound, chained, shackled

• (restricted): restricted

Antonyms

• unfettered

Anagrams

• Fredette

Source: Wiktionary


Fet"tered, a. (Zoöl.)

Definition: Seeming as if fettered, as the feet pf certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.

FETTER

Fet"ter, n. Etym: [AS. fetor, feter; akin to OS. feter, pl., OD. veter, OHG. fezzera, Icel. fjöturr, L. pedi, Gr. foot. sq. 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.

Fet"ter, v. t. Etym: [imp. & p.p. Fettered (n. Fettering.]

Definition: 1. To put fetters upon; to shakle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind. My heels are fettered, but my fist is free. Milton.

2. To reastrain from motion; to impose restrains on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations. My conscience! thou art fettered More than my shanks and wrists. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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