All 3 Uses of
fetter
in
The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran
- And when the unclean shall be no more, what were modesty but a fetter and a fouling of the mind?†
fetter = restrain or hinder
- And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.†
fetters = restrains or hinders OR shackles for the ankles
- And thus your freedom when ... becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom.
*fetter = restraining shackles
Definition:
to restrain or hinder
or more archaically:
a shackle for the ankles
or more archaically:
a shackle for the ankles