tether

A rope, chain, strap, or cord for keeping an animal within a certain radius.

A similar ropelike restraint used as a safety measure, as for a young child or an astronaut outside a spacecraft.

A rope, chain, cable, or other line for restraining or securing an object.

The extent or limit of one’s resources, abilities, or endurance.

A range of allowable behavior or responsibility.

To restrain or secure with a tether.

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.

To confine, as a grazing animal, with a rope or chain within certain limits; hence, to tie (anything) with or as with a rope or halter.

A long rope or chain by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only within certain limits.