fetterer

English

Etymology

fetter +‎ -er

Noun

fetterer (plural fetterers)

One who fetters.
- 1828, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 719445219:
  "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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

German

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Adjective

fetterer

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

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