Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Tethering"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
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