Feter
Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - feter
According to the Old English Dictionary:
- feter
- Add:--Feotur, fetor pedo vel paturum, Txts. 85, 1552. (1) a fetter for a person:--Sum man gesette his ðeówan man on fetera. Hé sæt lange on þám láðum bendum, oð þæt hé bestæl út mid his stafe hoppende and gesóhte ðone sanct . . . Se scyttel ðá ásceát of þǽre fetere, Hml. S. 21, 414-419. Gebundene feterum vinculis ligatos, Ps. Th. 106, 9. Mið feoturum (feotrum, L. compedibus) gibunden . . . ðá feoturo (fattro, L. compedes) forbræc, Mk. R. 5, 4. Mið fatrum, Lk. L. 8, 29. (2) a shackle for an animal:--Gyf feoh sý underfangen. Gif hit hors sý sing on his feteran oþþe on his brídele, Lch. iii. 286, 5. On his fetera oððe on his brídel, i. 392, 9.