leash

1. 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
   • like a fawning greyhound in the leash
2. 2

   A brace and a half; a tierce.obsolete

3. 3

   A set of three animals (especially greyhounds, foxes, deer/bucks, and hares).collectiveobsolete

   • Coordinate term: brace
4. 4

   A group of three.collectiveobsolete

   • 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. 5

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

6. 6

   A leg rope.

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

   A kind of metrical construct in Skeltonics.

1. 1

   To fasten or secure with a leash.

2. 2

   to curb, restrainfiguratively

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

ant. unleash