Anything with which one's body or limbs are bound; a band, bond, or fetter. plural. collective, Bonds, fetters, confinement, imprisonment. Obsolete.

A fetter for the ankle or wrist of a prisoner, usually one of a pair connected together by a chain… singular.

Anything with which one's body or limbs are bound, in restraint of personal liberty; a shackle, chain, fetter, manacle. archaic.

Anything with which one's body or limbs are bound in restraint of personal liberty; a shackle, chain, fetter, manacle. archaic (and only in plural).

Shackles, fetters.

? A shackle, fetter.

figurative (with allusion to senses 1 3); esp. in phrases, to holdor have in leash, to have control over, keep in bondage.

One of the series of rings or loops which form a chain. †Also, formerly, plural chains, fetters.

A fetter for the ankle or wrist of a prisoner, usually one of a pair connected together by a chain… plural.

Thieves' cant. plural. Shackles, fetters. Obsolete.

Nautical. A hole or socket used for securing something. Also: a device for securing a person's hands; (perhaps) a manacle. Obsolete.

A means of restricting the movement of the body or part of the body; a restraining device.

figurative. Chiefly poetic.

Usually in plural. A fetter for the hand; (more generally) a shackle.

A fetter or shackle. (Cf. span, v.2 1b.)