Both Uses of
fetter
in
Gulliver's Travels
- I removed from the Old Jewry to Fetter Lane, and from thence to Wapping, hoping to get business among the sailors; but it would not turn to account.†
Chpt 1 *
- My eldest uncle John had left me an estate in land, near Epping, of about thirty pounds a-year; and I had a long lease of the Black Bull in Fetter-Lane, which yielded me as much more; so that I was not in any danger of leaving my family upon the parish.†
Chpt 1
Definition:
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(fetter) to restrain or hinder
or more archaically:
a shackle for the ankles