Fetterer

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who fetters.

    ""But when the ice our streams did fetter," Which was the fetterer? We may guess, but not from the grammar."

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""But when the ice our streams did fetter," Which was the fetterer? We may guess, but not from the grammar."

Etymology

From fetter + -er.

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