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Leash

noun
1.
Restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal.  Synonyms: lead, tether.
2.
The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one.  Synonyms: 3, deuce-ace, III, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika.
3.
A figurative restraint.  Synonym: collar.  "Kept a tight leash on his emotions" , "He's always gotten a long leash"
verb
(past & past part. leashed; pres. part. leashing)
1.
Fasten with a rope.  Synonym: rope.






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"Leash" Quotes from Famous Books



... win her, but he presently found that while as yet he could not feel entirely certain of having won her, it was very manifest that she had won him. He had made an able fight, brief as it was, and that at least was to his credit. He was in good company, now; he walked in a leash of conspicuous captives. These unfortunates followed Laura helplessly, for whenever she took a prisoner he remained her slave henceforth. Sometimes they chafed in their bondage; sometimes they ...
— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

... Morong bred, And possess’d each canine guile and sleight; There was no dog in leash e’er led Could consign our dog to the ...
— King Hacon's Death and Bran and the Black Dog - two ballads - - - Translator: George Borrow • Thomas J. Wise

... a moral secession was apparent. Convention they had left behind with their boiled shirts and their store clothes, and crazed with the idea of speedy fortune, they were even now straining at the leash of decency. It was a howling mob, elately riotous, and already infected by the virus of ...
— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service

... nomad islands eluded him. As soon as he chose one to pursue, it flaunted its charms the more and capered and dodged behind its fellows. Like a giant may-pole, the largest island held several smaller ones in leash, permitting them to revolve around it, interlacing vines and creepers that were rooted on the mother isle. Monkeys and jungle creatures crept fearlessly along these natural ropes, sporting from one island to another. Hablar-birds and aigrets squabbled over bits of rice and wild fruits. ...
— The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy - A Book for Young and Old • Florence Partello Stuart

... forceps of the mind. Already Pederson was reaching out to seize and to crush; the man was a fool after all! Beardsley felt a burgeoning disgust, but there was something more, a throbbing, chest-filling sensation that he strove to hold rigidly in leash. He said quickly: "Come to think of it, Arnold did mention that he was here most of last ...
— We're Friends, Now • Henry Hasse


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