Healthy Christmas Eating! by Tash Hughes of Word Constructions. One of the dominant images of an Aussie Christmas is food. Mention of Christmas brings to mind Christmas Lunch, Christmas Dinner, Work Christmas Functions, Christmas Drinks and other Christmas get-togethers.
A device, usually one of a pair of rings connected to a chain, that is attached to the ankles or feet to restrict movement. 2. often fetters Something that serves to restrict; a restraint: the fetters of tyranny. tr.v. fetÂ·tered, fetÂ·terÂ·ing, fetÂ·ters.
Old English fetor chain or shackle for the feet, from Proto-Germanic *fetero (cf. Old Saxon feteros (plural), Middle Dutch veter fetter, in modern Dutch lace, string, Old High German fezzera, Old Norse fiÃ¶turr, Swedish fjÃ¤tter), from PIE root *ped- foot (see foot (n.)). The generalized sense of anything that shackles had evolved in Old English. Related Fetters.