transitive. To tie (a horse) to something.

transitive. To make fast or confine with a tether.

To secure with or as with a stake. To bind or tie up (an animal) to a stake; to bind (a person) to the stake for execution. Also with out.

transitive. To tether (a horse, etc.) to a picket or peg fixed in the ground.

transitive. To secure (an ox) by attaching a line or rope to its head. Also intransitive. Cf. headline, n.2 2. Obsolete.

spec. To shift (a tethered animal, occasionally the tether) from one spot to another, when it has eaten all the grass within reach; hence, to tether…

To tie or hitch up (a horse). Cf. to hang up 5 at phrasal verbs. Chiefly U.S.

transitive. To fasten (a horse) to a hay rack or (in extended use) to some other fixture.

To secure the head of a cow in a ‘bail’ while she is milked. (One leg is also usually secured.) Usually with up. Australian and New Zealand.

To fasten or tie up (a horse). Australian colloquial.

To tether a horse by burying the knotted end of the head-rope in the ground.

transitive. To fasten (an animal) to a manger.