leashes

Noun

leash (plural leashes)

1. A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
   • A stout woman upholstered in velvet, her flabby cheeks too much massaged, swirled by with her poodle straining at its leash1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

   Synonyms:

   lead

2. (obsolete) A brace and a half; a tierce.
3. (collective, obsolete) A set of three animals (especially greyhounds, foxes, deer/bucks, and hares).
   • Coordinate term: brace
4. (collective, obsolete) A group of three.
   • Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by their Christian names, as, Tom, Dick, and Francis.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

   Synonyms:

   trio

5. A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
6. A leg rope.
   • Probably the idea was around before that, but the first photo of the leash in action was published that year1980 February, Drew Kampion, “As Years Roll By (1970's Retrospective”, in Surfing, page 43

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