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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fetter \Fet"ter\ (f[e^]t"t[~e]r), noun [AS. fetor, feter; akin to OS. feter[=o]s, pl., OD. veter, OHG. fezzera, Icel. fj["o]turr, L. pedica, Gr. pe'dh, 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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