Definitions for fetters

fetters fet·ter

Spelling: [fet-er]
IPA: /ˈfɛt ər/

Fetters is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in fetters (eefrstt).

Definitions for fetters

noun

  1. a chain or shackle placed on the feet.
  2. Usually, fetters. anything that confines or restrains:

verb (used with object)

  1. to put fetters upon.
  2. to confine; restrain.

Origin of fetters

before 900; Middle English, Old English feter; cognate with Old High German fezzera, Old Norse fjǫturr; akin to foot

Examples for fetters

Briefly, I sketched the Chief's report, fetter nodding every few words.

Marriage is no fetter about a man or woman, binding both to that which they may get to hate.

The entente cordiale is simply a fetter and a dead weight upon you.

It consisted of seventy-two members of the fetter Lane Society.

Froude and I were nobodies; with no characters to lose, and no antecedents to fetter us.

The groan of breaking hearts is there—The falling lash—the fetter's clank!

No longer was the fetter Lane Society a calm abode of peace.

To yield to it, is to fetter our life with self-imposed and fantastic chains.

It is a bauble meant to gratify her: why make it a fetter, be it ever so light a one?

Each engagement, even a temporary one, was felt as a fetter by Erasmus.

Word Value for fetters
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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