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1. Bound by chains fastened around the ankles
   "Blackthorn stepped around the table toward where her fettered wrist lay";
   - shackled

1. Restrain with fetters
   - shackle, enfetter
    
2. [literary] Be a hindrance or obstacle to
   - impede, hinder, entrammel [literary], trammel [literary]

See also: bound

Type of: confine, constrain, hold, keep, prevent, restrain

Encyclopedia: Fettered