A chain for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or fixed, as a prisoner, or impeded in motion and hindered from leaping, as a horse whose fore and hind feet are confined by a chain. The Philistines bound Samson with fetters of brass. Judges 16:21.

Any thing that confines or restrains from motion. Passions too fierce to be in fetters bound.

To put on fetters; to shackle or confine the feet with a chain.

To bind; to enchain; to confine; to restrain motion; to impose restraints on. Fetter strong madness in a silken thread.