fetter

«fetter» in Mova's school dictionary: chains put round a prisoner's hands or feet — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (fetters); verb (fetter, fetters, fettered, fettering)

meaning for a pupil

1) Fetters are chains put round a prisoner's hands or feet. (old use) tree →

2) To fetter someone is to chain them up so they cannot move freely. tree →

sense in the lessons

in fairy tales and old stories fetters are chains that hold a prisoner or a monster; the word is also used for anything that holds back freedom

examples

• No fetters hold me now, said the tree. tree →
• The conquered kings were chained up with golden fetters. tree →
• The guards fettered the prisoner's hands. tree →

note

nothing for maths

In the corpora

• Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
• His feet they hurt with fetters, his person was laid in iron;
• To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
• And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction;
• Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fetter» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.