/tedh"euhr bawl'/ , n.
a game for two persons, in which each player, standing on each side of a post from the top of which a ball is suspended by a cord, hits the ball with the hand or a paddle in a direction opposite to that in which the other player hits it, the object being to coil the cord completely around the post.
[ 1895-1900; TETHER + BALL 1 ]