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   Fetter , n. [AS. fetor, feter; akin to OS. feterōs, pl., OD. veter, OHG. fezzera, Icel. fjöturr, L. pedica, Gr. πέδη, and to E. foot. √ 77. See Foot.] [Chiefly used in the plural, fetters.]
   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.
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   [They] bound him with fetters of brass.
   Judg. xvi. 21.
   
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   Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.
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   Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound.
   Dryden.
   
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   Fetter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fettered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Fettering.]
   To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.
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   My heels are fettered, but my fist is free.
   Milton.
   
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   To restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations.
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   My conscience! thou art fettered
   More than my shanks and wrists.
   Shak.
   
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