Definition of "tether-ball" []

• A game played with rackets and a ball suspended by a string from an upright pole, the object of each side being to wrap the string around the pole by striking the ball in a direction opposite to the other. (noun)

Gnu Collaboartive International Dictionary of English: licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

• "If you're going to be there, I'll be connected tether-ball style to the Chaosium/Elder Signs Press booth, so drop by and say "My God, there are a lot of books here.""
• "The latter had had the gardener set up a tall pole, to which was attached a tennis-ball by a cord, and she and Rolfe were hard at work on a game of tether-ball."
• "'This' ere game of tether-ball, 'he said,' fair makes me giddy. '"