leash
A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dogA strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
» Keep Tom on a short leash.
Meaning
7 sensesA strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
Leine, Hundeleine
поводо́кpovodók, при́вязьprívjazʹ, сво́раsvóra
повіде́цьpovidécʹ, поводо́кpovodók, шво́раšvóra
restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
A leg rope.
A kind of metrical construct in Skeltonics.
(obsolete)A brace and a half; a tierce.
(collective, obsolete)A set of three animals (especially greyhounds, foxes, deer/bucks, and hares).
Coordinate term: brace
Dreier, Triade, Troika
тро́йкаtrójka, тро́еtróje, компле́кт из трёх предме́товkomplékt iz trjox predmétov
(collective, obsolete)A group of three.
Examples
95 sentencesKeep Tom on a short leash.
Tom's dog was on a leash.
deToms Hund war angeleint. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Tom keeps Mary on a short leash.
ruТом держит Мэри на коротком поводке. — marafon
Tom usually walks his dog on a leash.
ruТом обычно выгуливает свою собаку на поводке. — Airy
deTom führt seinen Hund normalerweise an der Leine spazieren. — raggione
Tom had his dog on a short leash.
ruТом держал собаку на коротком поводке. — marafon
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English leesshe, leysche, lesshe, a variant of more original lease, from MiddlFrom Middle English leesshe, leysche, lesshe, a variant of more original lease, from Middle English lees, leese, leece, lese, from Old French lesse (modern French laisse), either from Latin laxa, feminine form of laxus (“loose”) or, more probably, from a deverbal of Old French lesser, laissier, from Latin laxāre (“loose”); compare lax. Doublet of laisse.
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