fetter

Meanings

Noun

• A chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal – often by its legs (usually in plural).
• Anything that restricts or restrains.

Verb

• To shackle or bind up with fetters.
• To restrain or impede; to hamper.

Related

Similar words

• leg irons

Narrower meaning words

• handcuff, handcuffs
• leg irons
• manacle, manacles
• shackle, shackles
• handcuff
• manacle
• shackle

Origin

• From Old English feter, from Proto-Germanic *feturaz ("fetter"), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- ("foot, step"). Cognate with Dutch veter ("lace"). Related to foot.