All 3 Uses of
fetter
in
Great Expectations
- The last I saw of him, his head was bent over his knee and he was working hard at his fetter, muttering impatient imprecations at it and at his leg.†
Chpt 3 *
- One person of mild and benevolent aspect even gave me a tract ornamented with a woodcut of a malevolent young man fitted up with a perfect sausage-shop of fetters, and entitled TO BE READ IN MY CELL.†
Chpt 13
- We were at Newgate in a few minutes, and we passed through the lodge where some fetters were hanging up on the bare walls among the prison rules, into the interior of the jail.†
Chpt 32
Definition:
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(fetter) to restrain or hinder
or more archaically:
a shackle for the ankles