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Leash vs Fetter - What's the difference?

leash | fetter |

As nouns the difference between leash and fetter

is that leash is a strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog while fetter is a chain or similar object used to bind a person or animal – often by its legs (usually in plural) .

As verbs the difference between leash and fetter

is that leash is to fasten or secure with a leash while fetter is to shackle or bind up with fetters.

leash

English

Noun

(es)
  • A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
  • * Shakespeare
    • like a fawning greyhound in the leash
  • A brace and a half; a tierce.
  • A set of three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general.
  • * 1597 , , by Shakespeare
    • Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by their Christian names, as, Tom, Dick, and Francis.
  • * 1663 ,
    • It had an odd promiscuous tone, / As if h' had talk'd three parts in one; / Which made some think, when he did gabble, / Th' had heard three labourers of Babel; / Or Cerberus himself pronounce / A leash of languages at once.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • [I] kept my chamber a leash of days.
  • * Tennyson
    • Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings.
  • A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
  • (surfing) A leg rope.
    • 1980: Probably the idea was around before that, but the first photo of the leash in action was published that year'' — ''As Years Roll By (1970's Retrospective) , Drew Kampion, magazine, February 1980, page 43. Quoted at surfresearch.com.au glossary[http://www.surfresearch.com.au/agl.html].

    Synonyms

    * (strap or cord used to restrain a dog)

    Verb

    (es)
  • To fasten or secure with a leash.
  • (figuratively) to curb, restrain
  • * 1919 , :
    • Man is brow-beaten, leashed , muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.

    Antonyms

    * unleash

    References

    * * (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * * * * * *

    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