Crossword clues for fettered
fettered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fettered \Fet"tered\, a. (Zo["o]l.) Seeming as if fettered, as the feet of certain animals which bend backward, and appear unfit for walking.
Wiktionary
1 bound by chains or shackles 2 (context by extension English) restricted v
(en-past of: fetter)
WordNet
adj. bound by chains fastened around the ankles [syn: in bonds(p), in fetters(p), shackled]
Wikipedia
Fettered is a 1919 British silent drama film directed by Arrigo Bocchi and starring Manora Thew, Hayford Hobbs and Fred Morgan. The film is based on a novel by Joan Sutherland.
Usage examples of "fettered".
Oh, I wish I could make you see how much my mind is at this moment like a rayless dungeon, with one shrinking fear fettered in its depths -- the fear of being persuaded by you to attempt what I cannot accomplish!
But in his countenance I saw a change: that looked desperate and brooding -- that reminded me of some wronged and fettered wild beast or bird, dangerous to approach in his sullen woe.
And when the old man tried to move, he found that his arms and legs were fettered with iron, held tight to the peculiar high, narrow bed or cot on which he lay.
One door was fettered by two closed padlocks, which were large and strong, and mounted upon separate heavy hasps.
He had been anaesthetized and stripped of his weapons, and as he rose to his feet he saw that one ankle was fettered to a chain in the wall.
The fettered ankle halted his first step, but he stretched at full length along the table, extending eager fingers toward the prize.
The boat returned, barely half an hour later, with two fettered convicts and a private marine, whose wrists were also pinioned, crouching between the thwarts.
It was only when, to prevent his attempting prematurely to escape, Phillip assigned an elderly convict to act as his guardian and had one of his wrists fettered, that Manly became sullen and dejected .
Dead March, the parade was formed into marching order, and the chaplain went to take his place beside the fettered prisoners, reading from his prayer book.
They halted by the door, and she counted five of them, all apparently fettered, and two, at least, armed with clubs.
His face, she realized with a shock, was coal black, his fettered arms the same color, and he was well over six feet in height-a big, powerful Negro of whom, she recalled, she had heard numerous stories.
Blood was staining his lips, a steadily growing pool of it spreading across the mud, but still he sought to make his meaning clear, raising himself on one arm and bunching up his fettered legs, as if it an effort to continue on his errand.
Such chains were symbolic ornaments, and most Dry-town women went all their lives with fettered hands.
Her arms were fettered, each wrist bound with a jeweled bracelet and the bracelets linked together by a long, silver-gilt chain passed through a silken loop at her waist.
She kissed me and I tasted blood, her thin fettered body straining wildly against me, shaken with tearing, convulsive sobs.