Definition of Fetter

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Fetter

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.

Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.

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

To restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations.

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Fetter Quotations

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
Charles Caleb Colton

The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.
Henry Cabot Lodge

Being, belief and reason are pure relations, which cannot be dealt with absolutely, and are not things but pure scholastic concepts, signs for understanding, not for worshipping, aids to awaken our attention, not to fetter it.
Johann G. Hamann

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.
Edward E. Barnard

Fetter Translations

fetter in Dutch is ketenen, boeien
fetter in Latin is vinculum
fetter in Norwegian is lenke, fotlenke

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