tetel (tetel)

[Ar.] A large bubaline antelope of Africa, Alcelaphus tora, with strongly divergent and ringed horns. tetert, n. Middle English form of tetter. tether (ter'er), n. Formerly or dial. tedder; being appar. related to taod, a halter, rope, chain, cable, taodan, a little cord, Ir. tead, teud, a cord, rope, W. tid, a chain, Manx teod, teid, a rope.] A rope, chain, or halter, especially one by which a grazing animal is confined within certain limits: often used figuratively, in the sense of a course in which one may move until checked; scope allowed. The bishops were found culpable, as eating too much beyond their tether . Hooker, Eccles. Polity, vii. 23. Then in a tether he'll swing from a ladder. Battle of Sheriff - Muir (Child's Ballads, VII. 162). Bacon . We live joyfully, going abroad within our tedder .