leash
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leash
- /liːʃ/ UK, US
Sounds like Laois · Rhymes with -iːʃ
Where it comes from
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.
noun leashes
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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
Similar: lead
- A brace and a half; a tierce.
- A set of three animals (especially greyhounds, foxes, deer/bucks, and hares). Coordinate term: brace
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A group of three.
Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by their Christian names, as, Tom, Dick, and Francis.
Similar: trio, see Thesaurus:trio
- A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
- A leg rope. Probably the idea was around before that, but the first photo of the leash in action was published that year
- A kind of metrical construct in Skeltonics.
verb leashes · leashing · leashed
- To fasten or secure with a leash.
- to curb, restrain Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.
Opposite: unleash
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: rope, tether, troika, lead, trey, trine, threesome, triad, trinity, trio, tierce, ternion, ternary, three, terzetto, triplet
verb
Opposite: unleash
Translations
Every language
noun long cord for dogs
| Español | correa, traílla, laja |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 목줄 mokjul |
| 日本語 | 綱 tsuna, 革紐 kawahimo, リード rīdo |
| 中文 | 皮帶 /皮带 pídài, 紲 /绁 or 絏 /绁 xiè |
| हिन्दी | चेन cen, छीन लेना chīn lenā |
| Português | trela, guia |
| Français | laisse |
| Deutsch | Leine, Hundeleine |
| Italiano | guinzaglio |
| Ελληνικά | λουρί lourí |
| Română | lesă |
| Русский | поводо́к povodók, при́вязь prívjazʹ, сво́ра svóra, по́вод póvod |
| العربية | رِبَاط ribāṭ |
| עברית | רְצוּעָה r'tzu'á |
noun a set of three
| Deutsch | Dreier, Triade, Troika, Triplett |
|---|---|
| Ελληνικά | τριάδα triáda |
| Română | triplet |
| Русский | тро́йка trójka, тро́е tróje, компле́кт из трёх предме́тов komplékt iz trjox predmétov |
verb to fasten or secure with a leash
| Português | encoleirar |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | anbinden (mit Leine), festbinden (mit Leine), anleinen |
| Ελληνικά | δένω déno |
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title = {leash},
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