Reverse Dictionary: FETTER

NOUNS
► ABBEY CLOGS chains or fetters worn by a criminal → M19 UK criminals’ sl.
► BAND anything with which one’s body or limbs are bound, in restraint of personal liberty; a shackle, chain, fetter, manacle → c1200 arch.
► BASIL an ‘iron’ or fetter fastened round the ankle of a prisoner → 1592 obs.
► BEND a band, bond, or fetter → c890 obs.
► BRACELETS wrist fetters → 17C sl.
► CLINKERS chains and fetters worn by imprisoned felons → L17 sl.
► CRAMP-RINGS shackles, fetters → 1567 thieves’ cant, obs.
► CUFFS wrist fetters → 17C sl.
► DARBIES a set of handcuffs or fetters; shackles → 1665 UK sl.. orig. criminals’ usage
► DARBIES AND JOANS ► DARBY AND JOANS fetters coupling two persons → c1735 sl.
► FETTLE a fetter → 1932 Amer. dial.
► GARNISH fetters → 1755 prison sl.
► GARTERS fetters, irons → 1769 nautical sl.
► GYVE a shackle, esp. for the leg; a fetter → c1275 arch.
► IRONS fetters → 1888 sl.
► KING’S PLATE chains, fetters → E19 sl.
► RACKAN a chain, a fetter → c888 obs.
► RACKLEBAN a fetter → 1893 Sc. obs.
► SAUSAGES fetters → M19 sl.
► SLANGS fetters; leg-irons → c1810 cant

VERBS
► BEND to put in bonds, to fetter → 1036 obs.
► FASTEN to make fast in fetters; to set fast, to render unable to move → a1000 obs.
► GARNISH to fit with fetters → 1755 sl.
► GARTER to fetter → 1604
► GYVE to fetter, to shackle → c1290
► HAMSHACKLE to fetter, to curb, to restrain → 1802
► ILLIGATE to bind or fetter; to bind with a spell → 1658 obs.
► IMMANACLE to put manacles on; to handcuff; to fetter → 1634