tether

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Only within the last 15, 20 minutes have the Associated Press, KUSA, other news organizations reported that there had been a basket attached to that balloon and that one of the little boy's brothers saw little 6-year-old Falcon go into that basket as the tether was released and the balloon took off.

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  1. noun A rope, chain, or similar restraint for holding an animal in place, allowing a short radius in which it can move about.
  2. noun A similar ropelike restraint used as a safety measure, especially for young children and astronauts.
  3. noun A rope, chain, or similar restraint for holding one, especially an animal, in place, allowing a short radius in which one can move about.
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  • You see, the tether was around my neck and the door was taller than I was. —  The Time of the Transference
  • Only within the last 15, 20 minutes have the Associated Press, KUSA, other news organizations reported that there had been a basket attached to that balloon and that one of the little boy's brothers saw little 6-year-old Falcon go into that basket as the tether was released and the balloon took off. —  CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2009
  • They had gone the length of their tether, but the tether was always there. —  The Imperialist
  • Whether the president's actions serve as a private sector lifeline or a tether is a question that Obama and his economic team must confront not only with GM and Chrysler, another bailed out automaker, but with the financial sector as well.
  • Whether the president's actions serve as a private sector lifeline or a tether is a question that Obama and his economic team must confront not only with GM and Chrysler, another bailed-out automaker, but with the financial sector as well. —  Latest Headlines - ABC 7 News
 

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  1. Middle English tedir, tethir, from Old Norse tjōdhr.

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  1. Formerly or dial. tedder; from Middle English tedir, tedyre (not found in Anglo-Saxon) = OFries. tiader, tieder, NFries. tjudder, tjodder = Middle Dutch tudder, tuyer = Middle Low German tuder, tudder, Low German töder, tüder, tider, tier = Icelandic tjōdhr = Swedish tjuder, Old Swedish tiuther = Danish töir, tether; perhaps, with formative -ther (as in rudder, formerly rother, etc.), from Anglo-Saxon teón, etc., draw, lead: see tee, tie, low. According to Skeat, of Celtic origin, from Gaelic teadhair, a tether; but this Gaelic form is prob. itself of English origin; no similar Irish or W. form occurs, and very few words of common Teutonic range are of Celtic origin. The Gaelic term may, however, be independent of the English, being apparently related to taod, a halter, rope, chain, cable, taodan, a little cord, Irish tead, teud, a cord, rope, Welsh tid, a chain, Manx teod, teid, a rope.
  2. from tether, n.
 

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