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Definition
to restrain or hinder
or more archaically:
a shackle for the ankles
or more archaically:
a shackle for the ankles
- The first and second were successfully darted, and we saw the whales staggeringly running off, fettered by the enormous sidelong resistance of the towing drugg.Chapters 85-87 -- The Fountain; The Tail; The Grand Armada (76% in)
There are no more uses of "fetter" in Moby Dick.
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