Fetter
Fetter (fet"tẽr) , noun
[Anglo-Saxon fetor, feter; akin to Old Saxon feterōs, pl., OD. veter, Old High German fezzera, Icelandic fjoturr, Latin pedica, Greek pe`dh, and to English foot. r 77. See Foot.]
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. [Chiefly used in the plural, fetters.]
[They] bound him with fetters of brass.
2.
Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.
Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound.
Fetter ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
[imp. & p. p. Fettered ({not transcribed}); p. pr. & vb. n. Fettering.]
1.
To put fetters upon; to shackle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind.
My heels are fettered, but my fist is free.
2.
To restrain from motion; to impose restraints on; to confine; to enchain; as, fettered by obligations.
My conscience! thou art fettered
More than my shanks and wrists.