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Leash

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
liːʃ

Definitions

  1. A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
  2. A brace and a half; a tierce.
    obsolete
  3. A set of three animals (especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares;)
    obsolete
  4. A group of three.
    obsolete
  5. A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
  6. A leg rope.
  7. A kind of metrical construct in Skeltonics.

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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”
“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.”
“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.”
“An I could climb⟳ and lay⟳ my hand upon it, / Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings.”
“Probably the idea was around before that, but the first photo of the leash in action was published that year”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

Leashes Leasing Leasingham Leask Leason Leasor

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