leash

Meaning

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.

tether

lead

tierce

erst

leather strap

deuce-ace

III

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/liːʃ/

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.