Fetter

//ˈfet.ə//

"Fetter" in a Sentence (4 examples)

Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound.

He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.

That was the turning-point of my life. I broke my fetters, and I fought a hard fight for a new career …

The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!

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