Definitions for leash

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Spelling: [leesh]

IPA: /liʃ/

Leash is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in leash (aehls).

Definitions for leash

noun

1. a chain, strap, etc., for controlling or leading a dog or other animal; lead.
2. check; curb; restraint:
3. Hunting. a brace and a half, as of foxes or hounds.

verb (used with object)

1. to secure, control, or restrain by or as if by a leash:
2. to bind together by or as if by a leash; connect; link; associate.

Origin of leash

1250-1300; Middle English lesh, variant of lece, lese Old French laisse. See lease¹

Examples for leash

I keep my ambition in leash, and still and on they must be snapping like curs at Argile.

Up to this time he had held his age back in the leash of an iron will.

But not any known law, human or divine, could hold our thoughts in leash.

Generally, she was defiant—almost magnificently so—when her demons slipped their leash.

He must have slipped his cousin's leash, for he was at the Nicaragua almost as soon as I was.

In the article, she spoke about her boyfriend taking her to clubs on a leash and collar.

As he came near, the girl could hold herself in leash no longer.

I am a man not to be held in the leash of an adventure like this; but she held me.

She strained at the warps that held her like a greyhound at its leash.

With Dallas in Magic Mike, Steven [Soderbergh] did nothing but let the leash go.