leash
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /liːʃ/
leash (plural leashes)
- A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
- Synonyms: lead
- c. 1605-1610, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act I, Scene 6
- like a fawning greyhound in the leash
- A brace and a half; a tierce.
- A set of three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general.
- 1597, Henry IV part 1, by Shakespeare
- Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by their Christian names, as, Tom, Dick, and Francis.
- 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1
- 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.
Ben Jonson - [I] kept my chamber a leash of days.
Tennyson - Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings.
- 1597, Henry IV part 1, by Shakespeare
- A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
- (surfing) A leg rope.
- French: laisse
- German: Hundeleine
- Italian: guinzaglio
- Portuguese: coleira, guia
- Russian: поводо́к
- Spanish: correa
- Russian: тро́йка
leash (leashes, present participle leashing; past and past participle leashed)
- To fasten or secure with a leash.
- (figuratively) to curb, restrain
- 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
- Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.
- 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:
- Portuguese: encoleirar
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