Read full poem →In such an hour,
When eager hands are fetter'd and too few,
And hearts alone have leave to bleed,
Dictionary Entry
A chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal – often by its legs (usually in plural).
Origin
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Common Phrases
lane fetter. fetterupon fetterfetter new
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Poetry examples for “fetter”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The Navigation Act (the child of that government indeed, but, in
its original, not designed rigidly to fetter their commerce) was re'en-
acted, with new and oppressive provisions; a monopoly being
Read full poem →And his lifeless body lay
A worn-out fetter, that the soul
Had broken and thrown away!
Read full poem →12. to bind our souls with secular chains: to fetter our religious
freedom with laws made by the civil power.
Read full poem →If I should turn no look behind,--
If I could curb my heart, and fetter
From reminiscent gaze my mind,
Read full poem →In which he vainly hoped the soul to bind
Which on the chains must prey that fetter humankind. _10
Read full poem →But when the ice our streams did fetter,
Oh! then how her old bones would shake!
Read full poem →Secure he views his harvests rise;
No fetter vile the mind shall know,
And Eloquence shall fearless glow.
Read full poem →THOUGH I waste watches framing words to fetter
Some spirit to mine own in clasp and kiss,
Read full poem →But when the ice our streams did fetter,
Oh! then how her old bones would shake!