FETTER
\fˈɛtə], \fˈɛtə], \f_ˈɛ_t_ə]\
Definitions of FETTER
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.
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To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.
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To restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations.
By Oddity Software
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Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.
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To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.
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To restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A chain or shackle for the feet; anything that restrains; -used chiefly in pl.
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To put fetters on; to restrain.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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