tether
nounEtymology
From Middle English tether, teder, from Old English *tēoder and/or Old Norse tjóðr ( > Danish tøjr, Swedish tjuder); both from Proto-Germanic *teudrą (“rope; cord; shaft”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *dewtro-, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to tie”), or from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”). Cognate with North German Tüder (“tether for binding the cattle”), Swedish tjuder (“tether for binding cattle”).
Definitions
A rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement.
- With the bulky, heavy helmet for the film strapped on, I was inside a fully immersive virtual world. With de la Peña playing minder and holding a tether which prevented me from bumping into walls, I somehow ended up inside the news story.
- We suffer the weather / We bind and we tether / This nation together
The limit of one's abilities, resources, patience, etc.
- Since his hours have increased, I feel that he is at the end of his tether.
An attachment to a place, time, entity or person.
- Despite moving, he maintained a strong tether to his culture back home.
- Deeper than speech our love, stronger than life our tether, / But we do not fall on the neck nor kiss when we come together.
- what tethers us to gravity and light / has most to do with distance and the shapes / we find in water
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A strong rope or line that connects a sailor's safety harness to the boat's jackstay.
To restrict with, or as if with, a tether.
- The cowboy tethered his horse outside the saloon.
To connect to something else.
Alternative form of tethera.
The neighborhood
- synonymhobblestrap
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for tether. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA