leash

Definitions

1. noun

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

   Examples

   • 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
   ≈lead
2. noun

   A brace and a half; a tierce.

3. noun

   A set of three animals (especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares;)

4. noun

   A group of three.

   Examples

   • 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.
5. noun

   A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.

6. noun

   A leg rope.

   Example

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

   A kind of metrical construct in Skeltonics.

8. verb

   To fasten or secure with a leash.

9. verb

   to curb, restrain

   Example

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