fetterer

English

Etymology

fetter +‎ -er

Noun

fetterer (plural fetterers)

1. One who fetters.
   • 1828, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     "But when the ice our streams did fetter,"
     Which was the fetterer? We may guess, but not from the grammar.

References

“fetterer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Adjective

fetterer

1. inflection of fett:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular comparative degree
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular comparative degree
   3. strong genitive plural comparative degree