单词 | fettering |
释义 | fetteringn. The action of binding with fetters. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > [noun] shackling1556 uptying1614 fetteringa1623 chaining1661 ironing1715 a1623 Gosson in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1886) VII. Ps. cxlix. 8 If he once fall to fettering of princes..no flesh shall be able to knock off their bolts again. 1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 VI. lxi. 111 The Perth citizen's familiar way of treating the fettering of a Highlander. 1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist ii. 98 That sign shall be..the fettering of such unwilling tongue. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.a1623 |
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