Meaning of Leash | Babel Free

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.

Equivalents

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”

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