Fetter Definition

Fetter Sentence Examples

• The right ankle of one, indeed, is connected with the left ankle of another by a small iron fetter.

• It had become an absolute fetter on the further development of the economy.

• About the 25th of September it moved to Fetter Lane.

• Thus he describes the body (which, after Epicurus, he calls the flesh) as a mere husk or fetter or prison of the soul; with its departure begins the soul's true life.

• Although the light thrown upon ancient conditions of life and thought has destroyed much that sometimes seems vital for the Old Testament, it has brought into relief a more permanent and indisputable appreciation of its significance, and it is gradually dispelling that pseudo-scientific literalism which would fetter the greatest of ancient Oriental writings with an insistence upon the verity of historical facts.