Fetter vs Bilboes - What's the difference?
fetter | bilboes |
A chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal – often by its legs (usually in plural) .
(figurative) Anything that restricts or restrains.
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(pluralonly) An iron bar fitting around the ankles of prisoners, and having sliding shackles.
:* 2001': The '''bilboes''' looked like handcuffs that went around the ankles. The prisoner lay flat on his back, in the dirt, his feet suspended in the air by a length of iron bar to which the '''bilboes were fastened. — Glen David Gold, ''Carter Beats The Devil
As nouns the difference between fetter and bilboes
is that fetter is a chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal – often by its legs (usually in plural) while bilboes is (pluralonly) an iron bar fitting around the ankles of prisoners, and having sliding shackles.As a verb fetter
is to shackle or bind up with fetters.fetter
English
(wikipedia fetter)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound.}}
citation, passage=He looks upon study as an odious' ' fetter ; his time is spent in the open air, climbing the hills or rowing on the lake.}}
citation, genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=That was the turning-point of my life. I broke my fetters , and I fought a hard fight for a new career … }}