fetter
fe ter
- n a shackle for the ankles or feet
- v restrain with fetters
- The minority government was fettered with the unreasonable demands of the party supporting it in the parliament.
- At times, sport has been "a fetter holding back the tide of change," Zirin writes.
- Under Gorbachev the system of residence permits did fetter the population; after Gorbachev hundreds upon hundreds of thousands lost their property and the roofs over their heads .