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Fetter vs Cramp - What's the difference?

fetter | cramp |

In lang=en terms the difference between fetter and cramp

is that fetter is to restrain or impede; to hamper while cramp is to restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.

As nouns the difference between fetter and cramp

is that fetter is a chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal – often by its legs (usually in plural) while cramp is a painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.

As verbs the difference between fetter and cramp

is that fetter is to shackle or bind up with fetters while cramp is (of a muscle) to contract painfully and uncontrollably.

fetter

English

(wikipedia fetter)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1675 , author=John Dryden , title=Aureng-zebe , section=Prologue citation , passage=Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1818 , author=Mary Shelley , title=Frankenstein , chapter=6 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.}}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1910 , year_published=2012 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Erwin Rosen , title=In the Foreign Legion , chapter=Prolog 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 … }}

    Synonyms

    (chains on legs) * leg irons

    Hyponyms

    (chain binding generally) * handcuff, handcuffs * leg irons * manacle, manacles * shackle, shackles

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shackle or bind up with fetters
  • To restrain or impede; to hamper.

    • Derived terms

    * unfetter

    Hyponyms

    * handcuff * manacle * shackle

    cramp

    English

    (wikipedia cramp)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled.
  • * Sir T. More
    • The cramp , divers nights, gripeth him in his legs.
  • That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shackle; a hindrance.
  • * L'Estrange
    • A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind.
  • * Cowper
    • crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear
  • A clamp for carpentry or masonry.
  • A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.

    • Derived terms

    * brain cramp * cramp ring * writer's cramp

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably.
  • To prohibit movement or expression.
    • You're cramping my style.
  • * Layard
    • The mind may be as much cramped by too much knowledge as by ignorance.
  • To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp.
    • You're going to need to cramp the wheels on this hill.
  • * Ford
    • when the gout cramps my joints
  • To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp.
  • (by extension) To bind together; to unite.
  • * Burke
    • The fabric of universal justice is well cramped and bolted together in all its parts.
  • To form on a cramp.
    • to cramp boot legs

    References

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