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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 fetters
 枷鎖

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Fet·ter n.  [Chiefly used in the plural, fetters.]
 1. A chain or shackle for the feet; a chain by which an animal is confined by the foot, either made fast or disabled from free and rapid motion; a bond; a shackle.
    [They] bound him with fetters of brass.   --Judg. xvi. 21.
 2. Anything that confines or restrains; a restraint.
    Passion's too fierce to be in fetters bound.   --Dryden.