Leash

/liːʃ/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

A stout woman upholstered in velvet, her flabby cheeks too much massaged, swirled by with her poodle straining at its leash

like a fawning greyhound in the leash

Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by their Christian names, as, Tom, Dick, and Francis.

[I] kept my chamber a leash of days.

It had an odd promiscuous tone, / As if h' had talk'd three parts in one; / Which made some think, when he did gabble, / Th' had heard three labourers of Babel; / Or Cerberus himself pronounce / A leash of languages at once.

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

Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.

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• leashes
• leashing
• leashed

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