All 3 Uses of
fetter
in
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- I would allow myself to suffer under the greatest imputations which evil-minded men might suggest, rather than exculpate myself, and thereby run the hazard of closing the slightest avenue by which a brother slave might clear himself of the chains and fetters of slavery.†
Chpt 11fetters = restrains or hinders OR shackles for the ankles
- The clanking of fetters and the rattling of chains in the prison,
Chpt Appe *fetters = a shackle for the ankles
- servants of thy own Merciful Son, who came to seek and save The homeless and the outcast, fettering down The tasked and plundered slave!†
Chpt Appefettering = restraining or hindering
Definition:
to restrain or hinder
or more archaically:
a shackle for the ankles
or more archaically:
a shackle for the ankles