Synonyms:
tethered
Meaning: confined or restricted with or as if with a rope or chain
Usage examples
Tethered to earth
And, anyhow, he saw that the horse was tethered to the tree.
"Is it possible?" sputtered the Professor, striding to the place where their stock had been tethered.
A scout preceded the marchers, and at sundown camp was formed in a big triangle with the carts as a stockade, the animals tethered or hobbled inside.
About the centre, and a good way behind the rest, Silver and I followed--I tethered by my rope, he ploughing, with deep pants, among the sliding gravel.
He is like a tethered beast who makes a daily round under the eye of a master; he is like an arrow, which must go whither it is sent, not whither it wishes.
He might have feasted to his heart's content, and incurred no penalty more serious than the disapproval of the tethered horse, had he not been quite so amazingly clever.