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枷鎖

資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Fetter \Fet"ter\, n. [AS. fetor, feter; akin to OS. feter?s,
   pl., OD. veter, OHG. fezzera, Icel. fj["o]turr, L. pedi?a,
   Gr. ?, and to E. foot. [root] 77. See {Foot}.] [Chiefly used
   in the plural, {fetters}.]
   1. A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an
      animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or
      disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle.

            [They] bound him with fetters of brass. --Judg. xvi.
                                                  21.

   2. Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.

            Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound.
                                                  --Dryden.