<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a chain or shackle placed on the feet.</li><li>(Usually fetters) anything that confines or restrains:<ul><li>Boredom puts fetters upon the imagination.</li></ul></li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to put fetters upon:<ul><li>to confine; restrain.</li></ul></li></ul>