noun. A device, usually one of a pair of rings connected to a chain, that is attached to the ankles or feet to restrict movement.

noun. Something that serves to restrict; a restraint.

transitive verb. To put fetters on; shackle.

transitive verb. To restrict or restrain: synonym: hobble.

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

noun. 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

noun. Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.

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

noun. Anything that restricts or restrains in any way.

verb. To shackle or bind up with fetters

verb. To restrain or impede; to hamper.

verb. restrain with fetters

noun. 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."

bond  hamper  shackle  trammel  

handcuff  manacle  shackle  

better  bettor  debtor  detter  etter  

armlet  enlightenment-factor  half-animal  half-sick  handcuff  

Oregon boat  anchor  arrest  bearing rein  bilbo  

fettered  fettering  fetters