fetter

noun

1. (plural, usually)A chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal, often by its legs.
2. (figuratively)Anything that restricts or restrains.

   “Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound.”

   “He looks upon study as an odious fetter; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.”

   “That was the turning-point of my life. I broke my fetters, and I fought a hard fight for a new career …”

verb

1. (transitive)To shackle or bind up with fetters.

   “The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!”

2. (transitive)To restrain or impede; to hamper.

name

1. A surname.