leash

Betekenis (English)

Noun

1. A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
2. (obsolete) A brace and a half; a tierce.
3. (obsolete) A set of three animals (especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares;)
4. (obsolete) A group of three.
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.

Verb

1. To fasten or secure with a leash.
2. to curb, restrain

Synonyms

tether

lead

strap

thong

rope

🪢

knot

🪢

span

belt

collar

rein

line

brace

three

threesome

couple

👫

tie

tierce

bunch

bury

business

busyness

cartload

chain

chowder

circle

⭕

clamour

clip

cloud

☁️

cluster

clutter

coalition

colony

comfort

company

conjoin

connect

control

corps

covey

drift

drove

erst

exaltation

family

👪

fasten

field

flight

✈️

flock

flush

gaggle

grist

gulp

harem

harness

herd

hive

hook up

interlock

intrigue

join

kennel

kindle

lash

lashing

mob

murder

mustering

nest

pack

paddling

parliament

plump

pod

pounce

pride

raft

reins

restraint

rookery

rout

school

🏫

shiver

shoal

shrewdness

skein

skulk

sleuth

sloth

🦥

sounder

splice

string

🪢

stud

swarm

syndicate

team

tercet

ternary

tiding

tittering

train

🚋

trey

triad

tribe

trine

trinity

trio

trip

triplet

troika

troop

truss

wedge

harras

clowder

leather strap

strap on

terzetto

murmuration

deuce-ace

ternion

3

hirsel

cete

ally

III

army

ascension

associate

attach

band

barrel

barren

battery

🔋

bed

🛏️

bevy

bike

🚲

bind

boar

🐗

bridle

brood

building

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/liːʃ/

Etimologie (English)

Inherited from Middle English: leesshe

Cognate with Frans: laisse

In summary

From 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), from Latin laxa (“thong, a loose cord”), feminine form of laxus (“loose”); compare lax. Doublet of laisse.