LekhoriLekhoriA chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal, often by its legs.
Anything that restricts or restrains.
Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound.
To shackle or bind up with fetters.
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!
A surname.
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 f...
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To restrain or impede; to hamper.