Rope that limits an animal's movement

Usage examples of tether.

She found a patha well-worn path leading from the riverand followed it just out of sight, afoot, leaving Hellsbane tethered in a safe place hidden by the underbrush.

Vaughn watched Morris work his way aft, letting out his tether as he went, until he was at the far aft-point of the hull where it sloped down into the water.

At the hubs and junctions of the irrigation system, Auger made out the off-white sprawl of cities and townships, the tentative scratches of roads and the lines of tethered dirigibles.

A wire cable connected the ball to the avionics equipment in the helo, making it appear as though it were tethered to the ocean.

Whilst the Colonel spoke the other man circled the tethered girl, whose blindfolded face moved following the sounds of his footsteps.

Maia and Brod ducked again, having caught sight of an expanse of floating bits and flinders, logs and loosely tethered boxes, along with one drifting, grotesquely ruined body.

He would have thought the Chickadee one of the latter, except that there was no broken tether cord around its neck.

I, now of some fifteen summers, was pasturing the goats not far from the house, the sky darkened, and there came up so great a storm of thunder and lightning, and huge drift of rain, that I was afraid, and being so near to the house, I hastened thither, driving the goats, and when I had tethered them in the shed of the croft, I crept trembling up to the house, and when I was at the door, heard the clack of the loom in the weaving-chamber, and deemed that the woman was weaving there, but when I looked, behold there was no one on the bench, though the shuttle was flying from side to side, and the shed opening and changing, and the sley coming home in due order.

Every day for a week something was amiss, and, having gone to the length of his own tether, Devers took to saying that it was all Mr.

Within moments, with the aid of enthusiastic Vaileun boys, the dyre were tethered, relieved of their burdens, and watered.

She floated, lightly tethered, in the gentle stream blowing out of the air chair, slim graceful body semi-foetal, arms waving, her long, end-tied chestnut hair blossoming above her like a cobra hood, wrapping over her head then wafting back again.

But early in the evening of that same day, at the corners of quiet streets, in the covered ways, by the doors of bazaars, among the horses tethered in the fondaks, wheresoever two men could stand and talk unheard and unobserved by a third, one secret message of twofold significance passed with the voice of smothered joy from lip to lip.

As the hather staggered to its feet, Xenon tethered it to a sapling and turned his attention to the catamint.

There were needle-thin submarines bobbing tethered between barquentines, and chariot ships filled with hotchi burrows.

Aware of the need to complete her act of propitiation, she rode farther on to the Nantosuelta River and tethered Laith to an ash branch.