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Leash
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- 1 A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
"A stout woman upholstered in velvet, her flabby cheeks too much massaged, swirled by with her poodle straining at its leash"
- 2 a figurative restraint wordnet
- 3 A brace and a half; a tierce. obsolete
- 4 restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal wordnet
- 5 A set of three animals (especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares;) obsolete
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- 6 the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one wordnet
- 7 A group of three. obsolete
"Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by their Christian names, as, Tom, Dick, and Francis."
- 8 A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
- 9 A leg rope.
"Probably the idea was around before that, but the first photo of the leash in action was published that year"
- 10 A kind of metrical construct in Skeltonics.
- 1 To fasten or secure with a leash.
- 2 fasten with a rope wordnet
- 3 to curb, restrain figuratively
"Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state."
Etymology
From Middle English leesshe, leysche, lesshe, a variant of more original lease, from Middle English lees, leese, leece, lese, from Old French lesse (modern French laisse), either from Latin laxa, feminine form of laxus (“loose”) or, more probably, from a deverbal of Old French lesser, laissier, from Latin laxāre (“loose”); compare lax. Doublet of laisse.
From Middle English leesshe, leysche, lesshe, a variant of more original lease, from Middle English lees, leese, leece, lese, from Old French lesse (modern French laisse), either from Latin laxa, feminine form of laxus (“loose”) or, more probably, from a deverbal of Old French lesser, laissier, from Latin laxāre (“loose”); compare lax. Doublet of laisse.
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