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leash
[leesh] 
–noun
| 1. | a chain, strap, etc., for controlling or leading a dog or other animal; lead. |
| 2. | check; curb; restraint: to keep one's temper in leash; a tight leash on one's subordinates. |
| 3. | Hunting. a brace and a half, as of foxes or hounds. |
–verb (used with object)
| 4. | to secure, control, or restrain by or as if by a leash: to leash water power for industrial use. |
| 5. | to bind together by or as if by a leash; connect; link; associate. |
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| leash (lēsh) n.
To restrain with or as if with a leash. [Middle English lees, lesh, from Old French laisse, from laissier, to let go; see lease.] |
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Leash
Leash\, n. [OE. lese, lees, leece, OF. lesse, F. laisse, LL. laxa, fr. L. laxus loose. See Lax.]1. A thong of leather, or a long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog. Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash. --Shak. 2. (Sporting) A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general. [I] kept my chamber a leash of days. --B. Jonson. Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings. --Tennyson. 3. (Weaving) A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
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Language Translation for : leash
Spanish:
correa,
German:
die (Koppel)Leine,
Japanese:
皮ひも
leash
"thong for holding a dog or hound," c.1300, from O.Fr. laisse, from laissier "loosen," from L. laxare, from laxus "loose" (see lax). Fig. senses are attested from c.1430. The verb is from 1599. The noun meaning "a set of three" is from c.1320, originally in sporting language.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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