Read full poem →And weave with foam and feather
And wind and words the tether
Our memories play with yet.
Dictionary Entry
A rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement
Origin
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Common Phrases
. tetherball tetherline tether
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Poetry examples for “tether”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Wealth keeps house not, even for shame, with dearth:
Fate doth ill to link in one brief tether
Death and birth.
Read full poem →He hath rent them: shall he bind together?
He hath bound them: shall he break the tether?
He hath slain them: shall he bid them live?
Read full poem →I, rash with theories of the right,
Which stretch’d the tether of my Creed,
But did not break it, held delight
Read full poem →And we go on with none to tell us whether
Or not we've each a tether
Determining how fast or far we go;
Read full poem →I--I--you--ah--" an' there I stuck, an' well she understood me.
So we agreed that later on when age had giv' us tether,
We 'd jine our lots an' settle down to own that book together.
Read full poem →Leave we the common crofts, the vulgar thorpes,
Each in its tether
Sleeping safe on the bosom of the plain,
Read full poem →Like him, and lay, like his, my hands together,
And lift them up to pray, and gently tether 20
Me, as thy lamb there, with thy garment's spread?
Read full poem →We’ll toyte about wi’ ane anither;
Wi’ tentie care I’ll flit thy tether
To some hain’d rig,
Read full poem →2 Loosen'd from the minor's tether,
Free to mortgage or to sell,