transitive. To fasten with, or as with, gyves; to fetter, shackle.
| 单词 | θ171569 |
| 释义 | society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > bind, fetter, or shackle [verb (transitive)] > by the feet or legs (10) gyvec1290 transitive. To fasten with, or as with, gyves; to fetter, shackle. fetterc1300 transitive. To bind with or as with fetters; to chain, fasten, shackle. hopshackle?a1513 (transitive) to hopple or hobble. to lay (also set, clap, etc.) (a person) by the heels?1515 to lay (also set, clap,etc.) (a person) by the heels: to put in irons or the stocks; to fetter, arrest, or confine. Similarly to have (a person) b… to lay fast by the feet1560 to lay fast: to set fast, render unable to proceed or escape; †formerly, to put in fetters, imprison (also †to lay fast by the feet). Also to lay b… garter1604 transferred. To fetter (cf. garter, n. 1c). enfetter1611 transitive. To put into fetters, literal and figurative; also, to enslave to. heela1638 transitive. To seize (a person) by the heel. Cf. heeler, n.2 1. Obsolete. Subcategories:— wear fetters (1) — fasten block of wood to (1) |
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