fetter
noun
a chain or shackle placed on the feet.
will fetter
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future tenseof fetter.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Does it mean that the chains, with which your peerless empress will fetter my arms, are to be of gold, secured with diamonds?
From Joseph II. and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
This web of trouble, which your own hands have woven around your life, will fetter and gall you at every step in your future journey.
From The Hand but Not the Heart or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
You fancy, perhaps, that this snare, into which I have fallen, will fetter my hands and prevent me from undoing your work.
From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lawrence L. Lynch
I will fetter these fancies roaming; Already the sun has dipped; I will trim the lamps in the gloaming, I will finish my manuscript.
From Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke
Yet one thing will fetter it worse, only one thing—if you, in any respect, stay behind?
From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Robert Browning
