Leash

Quick meaning: Leash is a noun meaning A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.

Meaning

A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.

More Meanings

1. A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
2. (surfing) A leg rope.
3. (prosody) A kind of metrical construct in Skeltonics.
4. To fasten or secure with a leash.
5. (obsolete) A brace and a half; a tierce.
6. (obsolete) A set of three animals (especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares;)
7. (obsolete) A group of three.

Example Sentences

[I] kept my chamber a leash of days.

like a fawning greyhound in the leash

An I could climb and lay my hand upon it, / Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings.

Probably the idea was around before that, but the first photo of the leash in action was published that year

Word Forms

• leashes
• leashing
• leashed

Synonyms for leash

Depending on context, synonyms include lead, troika, trine, rope, ternary, tercet.

Antonyms for leash

Common opposites include unleash.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rope, tether, troika, lead, trey, trine.

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