noun
definition
A chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal – often by its legs (usually in plural).
definition
Anything that restricts or restrains.
verb
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To shackle or bind up with fetters.
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To restrain or impede; to hamper.
Examples of fetter in a Sentence
The right ankle of one, indeed, is connected with the left ankle of another by a small iron fetter.
It had become an absolute fetter on the further development of the economy.
About the 25th of September it moved to Fetter Lane.
Thus he describes the body (which, after Epicurus, he calls the flesh) as a mere husk or fetter or prison of the soul; with its departure begins the soul's true life.
Although the light thrown upon ancient conditions of life and thought has destroyed much that sometimes seems vital for the Old Testament, it has brought into relief a more permanent and indisputable appreciation of its significance, and it is gradually dispelling that pseudo-scientific literalism which would fetter the greatest of ancient Oriental writings with an insistence upon the verity of historical facts.
Several of his former colleagues declined to join him, on the ground of their absolute hostility to the policy of Home Rule; others joined on the express understanding that they were only pledged to consider the policy, and did not fetter their further liberty of action.
Grave disorders had arisen in the society at Fetter Lane, and on the 25th of July 1740 Wesley withdrew from it.
That was probably help in the Fetter Lane Society, for Wesley then had no preaching place of his own.
Subsequently he held charges at Coventry (1784-1803) and at Fetter Lane, London (1803-1832).
On New Year's Day, 1739, the Wesleys, Whitefield and other friends had a Love Feast at Fetter Lane.
Taking up his abode in Fetter Lane, London, on his return, and continuing to reside there for the sake of intellectual society, even after renewing his old ties with the earl of Devonshire, who lived in the country till the Restoration,4 he worked so steadily as to be printing the De corpore in the year 1654.