OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 12433

fetter

/ˈfet.ə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
apea • grillete • grillos • manea • pihuela • pihuelas
A chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal, often by its legs.
grillos • obstáculo • pihuela • traba
Anything that restricts or restrains.
He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.
Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound.
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Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 12434

fetter

/ˈfet.ə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
aherrojar • engrillar
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…
impedir
To restrain or impede; to hamper.