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fetterer

fetterer noun: one who fetters.

Noun

fetterer (plural fetterers)

  1. One who fetters.
    • "But when the ice our streams did fetter,"
      Which was the fetterer? We may guess, but not from the grammar.1828, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC

Forms of fetterer

pluralfetterers

Origin of fetterer

From fetter + -er.

Questions about fetterer

What does fetterer mean?
Fetterer means one who fetters.
What part of speech is fetterer?
Fetterer is a noun.
What is the plural of fetterer?
The plural of fetterer is fetterers.

Words near fetterer in the dictionary

  1. fettelite
  2. fetter
  3. fetterbush
  4. fetterbushes
  5. fettered
  6. fetterer
  7. fetterers
  8. Fetterhoff
  9. Fetterhoffs
  10. fettering
  11. fetterings

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