Crossword clues for fetters
fetters
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fetter \Fet"ter\ (f[e^]t"t[~e]r), n. [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.]
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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. -
Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.
Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
Wikipedia
Fetters is a 1961 Czech drama film directed by Karel Kachyňa. It was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival.
Usage examples of "fetters".
Their poverty extorted from their pride those charters of freedom which unlocked the fetters of the slave, secured the farm of the peasant and the shop of the artificer, and gradually restored a substance and a soul to the most numerous and useful part of the community.
They were conducted to the prison, to behold four princes of the royal blood chained in the four corners, and shaking their fetters in an agony of grief and rage.
On the rumor of revenge and liberty, the captive multitude broke their fetters, fortified their prison, and exposed from the battlements the tyrant's head, presuming on the favor of the people and the clemency of the empress.
As a child she had seen three such sorcerers set the enchanted fetters that blocked Anskiere's command of wave and weather.
It wound upward, doubled, and let onto a pillared gallery where fetters dangled over mouldering heaps of bones.
Steel set to use as fetters absorbed the warmth of the body, and the stone floor immediately beneath sang with the queer, crystalline resonance of Sathid in the process of bonding.
The fetters sensed through his mastery had been fashioned for wrists that were heart-breakingly small.
Kor's Accursed had dragged him, perhaps by the cutting edges of his fetters, for his wrists burned unmercifully.
Relieved from the blinding effects of his fetters, Jaric viewed a chamber packed with the squat forms of Thienz, and other demons whose shapes he did not recognize.
His features gleamed, sweating in the glow of enchanted fetters, while two score untamed Sathid threaded rapidly through his consciousness.
Prone on cold tile, his cheek pressed into the hard edges of his fetters, Jaric poised on the brink of vital revelation.
The links connecting the cuffs of his fetters gave way with a sound like breaking glass.
He made her kneel and again snapped on her wrists the iron, single-linked fetters of the north, and then he tied her by the neck at the end of the coffle.
They, by the fetters and their single link, were held about three mches apart.
He removed one of the fetters and jerked the girl's hands behind her back.