[teth
-er-bawl] 
| 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. |
| teth·er·ball (těth'ər-bôl') n. A game played by two people using the hands or paddles and a ball hung by a cord from an upright post, the objective being to wind the cord around the post. |