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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Fetter  \Fet"ter\,  n.  [AS.  fetor,  feter;  akin  to  OS  feter?s, 
  pl.,  OD  veter,  OHG.  fezzera  Icel.  fj["o]turr,  L.  pedi?a, 
  Gr  ?,  and  to  E.  foot.  [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. 




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