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Tedder(it, Tether(it, (ppl.) adj. Also: teddert, teddirt, tethert. [e.m.E. teddered (1573), tethered (a1680); Tedder v.] Confined or restrained by means of a tether.(a) 1565 Hamilton & Campsie Test. I 21b.
Ane tedder kow 1569 Crail B. Ct. MS 17 April.
Ane sufficient passage to pas to his land with ane tedderit kow & hors throw the samin 1590 Edinb. Test. XXII 195b.
Thrie tedderit oxin price of the pece … xiiij li. vj s. viij d. 1591 Monimail Reg. Ct. 10 April.
Wpone euery aught pairt of the said toun four horsis and tedderit cattell ten nolt and thriescoir scheip 1604 Dundonald Par. Rec. 52.
Hir teddirt ky … brak louse and ran athort the feildis 1605 Inverurie 190.
Ane teddert beist 1632 Cullen B. Rec. I 27 April.
That comuntie of the kill craig is misvsit be teddert ȝowes … halding no boundis to thame bot eittis and distroyis the narest cornes adaicen thairto for want of boundis(b) 1657 Rothesay B. Rec. 14.
The counsell … ordaynis na tether scheip be keipit in the towne … or louse lambes 1662 Forbes Baron Ct. 230.
No tenent … shall dettayn non of thair guid out of the fauld except it be ane tetherit beast 1682 Rothesay B. Rec. 388.
Those who hes not grasse of ther oun shall not lissour on the comon but … gives them to the comon herd to be herded … and that none keip neither tethert horse or kowes but upon the accompt forsaid