tether

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TETH'ER, noun [See Tedder.] A rope or chain by which a beast is confined for feeding within certain limits. TETH'ER, verb transitive To confine, as a beast, with a rope or chain for feeding within certain limits. [It would be well to write this word uniformly tedder.]
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