Tethered
[teðəd]
Definition
(adj.) confined or restricted with or as if with a rope or chain .
Checker: Rene--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Tether
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Examples
- An elderly nursemaid and two children were standing in a corner of the enclosure, looking at a lean goat tethered to the grass. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Have you not tethered a young kid under a tree, lain above it with your rifle, and waited for the bait to bring up your tiger? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Animals are tied or tethered by it and led by it, and man, himself, is one of its victims. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Tiber, the road which is spread by nature's own hand, threading her continent, was at my feet, and many a boat was tethered to the banks. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- There was a smell within, coming up from the floor, of tethered beasts, like the smell of a menagerie of wild animals. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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