| 单词 | tether-string |
| 释义 | > as lemmastether-string attributive and in other combinations, as tether-end, tether-length, tether-rope, tether-string; tether-ball n. a ball fastened to or suspended from a pole by a string; the game played with this (Webster Suppl. 1902). tether-peg n. tether-stake n. = tether-stone n. tether-stick n. = tether-stone n. tether-stone n. a pin or stake of wood or iron, or a stone, fixed in the ground, to which an animal is tethered. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > tether > hitching post or rail range1688 tether-stake1725 tether-sticka1800 hitching-post1842 picket-pin1844 tie-post1861 tether-stone1884 tie rail1920 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > other bat and ball games > [noun] pat-ball1775 knur and spell1852 bumble-puppy1897 tether-ball1900 paddleball1930 goalball1947 Jokari1953 pickleball1975 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. ii He'll look upon you as his tether-stake. 1786 R. Burns Poems 65 Gude keep thee frae a tether string! a1800 Kempy Kaye in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1884) I. ii. 302/1 His teeth they were like tether-sticks. 1859 K. Cornwallis Panorama New World I. 144 They took my tether rope, and commenced making me fast to a tree. 1884 Lays & Leg. N. Irel. 13 Put a tether-stone up on the face av the hill. 1900 Queen 29 Sept. (advt.) Parlour tether ball... This..game consists of a perpendicular pole, to the top of which an india-rubber ball is attached by a cord... Each player is provided with a bat, with which to strike the ball. 1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. I. ii. xxxviii. 425 His own mental tether-length having been strained to the breaking point. 1973 E. S. Shneidman Deaths of Man ix. 95 A..bachelor was found hanging from a tetherball pole. < as lemmas |
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