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tethered

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Tether \Teth"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tethered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tethering .] 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.

Usage examples of tethered.

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

What manner of things were those shadows he sometimes glimpsed, behind the tightly tethered guard sharks, unclear through what must be adumbrating glamours?

She had felt tethered by time to the city behind her, so that the minutes stretched out taut as she moved away, and slowed the farther she got, dragging out her little voyage.

A moving ecology and politics were tethered to the city’s calcified base.

The little boats bumped each other constantly, tethered together with chains and crusted knotwork.

An unstable-looking tower tottered at the ship’s rear, tethered by guy ropes to the rigging.

But when he was below, in his harness, his leather and brass, he felt tethered and constrained.

The massive harness was taking shape at the end of the huge chains, still tethered scant scores of feet below the surface, its scale troubling to the eye, its outlines exotic and unfathomable, surrounded by the vividly colored fish of this sea, and by submarines and cray craftsmen and suited workers and Tanner Sack all moving with the slow fluidity of the submerged.

The city stabilized a little and there was only the continuing unfolding of the great tethered chains, five lines of links descending into the hidden deeps.

Bridges had linked it to its surrounds, and chains and ropes and buffers had tethered it.

They trailed behind it like anxious ducklings, and several tethered to the edges of the city switched off their motors and were borne on by the avanc.

Or tethered by the motionless avanc, an anchor of unimaginable weight.

They descended by one of the great chains that tethered the avanc, slipping past one massive link after another, psoriatic with shellfish and generations of weed.

And if we survive this lunacy, as long as we’re tethered to the bastard avanc these two will take us on another fucking voyage, and another, until we all die.

And suddenly its weight told, and I heard a cracking like some god’s bone breaking, and the rear third of the ship, to which I was tethered, split and hinged down, hauling me with it, clinging with my arms locked around a girder, down, into the Scar.