Tether
['teðə] or ['tɛðɚ]
Definition
(n.) A long rope or chain by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only within certain limits.
(v. t.) To confine, as an animal, with a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain limits.
Inputed by Kirsten
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Tedder.
Checked by Llewellyn
Definition
n. a rope or chain for tying a beast while feeding within certain limits.—v.t. to confine with a tether: to restrain within certain limits.
Typist: Rodger
Examples
- A lasso was then thrown over the neck of a mule, when he would immediately go to the length of his tether, first one end, then the other in the air. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But I've got to the end of my tether, and I must have advice. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- For I can't go on in this way much longer, you know--I'm nearly at the end of my tether. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I could clip the wings or tether them by one leg when I used them for calling. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I'm desperate--I'm at the end of my tether. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I was fairly at the end of my tether at last, and could hardly find the stamps to answer the advertisements or the envelopes to stick them to. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- 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.
Checker: Paulette