TETHER

n. v.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
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.

2.
v.

To confine, as an animal, with a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain limits. And by a slender cord was tethered to a stone. Wordsworth.


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