Usually means: Cords that attach, secure, or stabilize.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. tethers: Merriam-Webster
  2. tethers: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tethers: Vocabulary.com
  4. Tethers, tethers: Wordnik
  5. tethers: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. tethers: Wiktionary
  7. tethers: Dictionary.com
  8. tethers: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. tethers: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tethers: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tethers: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tethers: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tether)

noun:  A rope, cable etc. that holds something in place whilst allowing some movement.
noun:  (by extension) The limit of one's abilities, resources, patience, etc.
noun:  (by extension) An attachment to a place, time, entity or person.
noun:  (nautical, sailing) A strong rope or line that connects a sailor's safety harness to the boat's jackstay.
verb:  (transitive) To restrict with, or as if with, a tether.
verb:  (transitive) To connect to something else.
verb:  (Internet, transitive) To connect (a smartphone) to a personal computer in order to give the computer access to the phone's Internet connection.
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