2. Verb. (third-person singular of tether) ¹
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Definition of Tethers
1. tether [v] - See also: tether
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tethers
Literary usage of Tethers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art of Travel: Or, Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries by Francis Galton (1860)
"... a short bar of wood, a foot long, is passed under it, and from either end of
the bar a cord is tied to the pack-saddle. Sect. 5.—tethers, Bobbles ..."
2. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of ChangeTechnology (1994)
"Because tethers of a fixed length tend to droop and become tangled, they should be
... WARNING tethers Should Not Be Attached to a Diver's Weight Belt, ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... to be fulfilled by tethers. Others were invented for the ... and so on, till
all apace had been filled three or four times over with tethers. ..."
4. The Children's Garland from the Best Poets by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1863)
"Our duty keeps us to our tethers, And where the gale drives we must go. The storm
came on thicker and faster, As black just as pitch was the sky, ..."
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