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# fetter

«fetter» in Mova's school dictionary: **chains put round a prisoner's hands or feet** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (fetters); verb (fetter, fetters, fettered, fettering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Fetters are chains put round a prisoner's hands or feet. (old use) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fetter/#m1)

2) To fetter someone is to chain them up so they cannot move freely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fetter/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales and old stories fetters are chains that hold a prisoner or a monster; the word is also used for anything that holds back freedom

### examples

- No fetters hold me now, said the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fetter/#x1)
- The conquered kings were chained up with golden fetters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fetter/#x2)
- The guards fettered the prisoner's hands. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fetter/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1081/)
- [His feet they hurt with fetters, his person was laid in iron;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1879/)
- [To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2689/)
- [And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.947/)
- [Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/2CH.868/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fetter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fetter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.