- Cabin the French restrain with fetters - Fetter - Restrain or limit - Stubble. - Something which confines the legs or arms so as to prevent
their free motion; specifically, a ring or band inclosing the ankle or
wrist, and fastened to a similar shackle on the other leg or arm, or to
something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter. - Hence, that which checks or prevents free action. - A fetterlike band worn as an ornament.
- An ornamental stitch like the links of a chain; -- used
in crocheting, sewing, and embroidery. - A stitch in which the looping of the thread or threads
forms a chain on the under side of the work; the loop stitch, as
distinguished from the lock stitch. See Stitch.