fetter
A chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal, often by its legsA chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal, often by its legs.
» Let's shackle your feet with silver fetters.
Meaning
2 senses(plural, usually)A chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal, often by its legs.
Fessel, Fußfessel, Fußschelle
пу́тыpúty, око́выokóvy, кандалы́kandalý
пу́таpúta, око́виokóvy
(figuratively)Anything that restricts or restrains.
пу́тыpúty, око́выokóvy
- a shackle for the ankles or feet
Examples
5 sentencesLet's shackle your feet with silver fetters.
Have you never felt fettered by a bond of love?
deHattest du schon einmal einen Liebesknecht, der dir nie im Wege stand? — Pfirsichbaeumchen
When you dedicate your life to a holy cause as a duty, you are fettered.
ruКогда святому делу, словно долгу своему, ты жизнь посвящаешь – на тебя накладывают путы. — AqQoyriq_1
Whatever they directed, it was in vain to expostulate; fetters, and bread and water, were the sure consequences of resistance.
Here in a vast cavern king Aeolus rules over the struggling winds and howling tempests, and restrains them in prison with fetters.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English feter, from Old English feter, Proto-West Germanic *fetur, from Proto-From Middle English feter, from Old English feter, Proto-West Germanic *fetur, from Proto-Germanic *feturaz (“fetter”), from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”). Related to foot.
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