Definitions for leashes

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leashes leash

Spelling: [leesh]

IPA: /liʃ/

Leashes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 121 anagrams from letters in leashes (aeehlss).

Definitions for leashes

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 leashes

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

Examples for leashes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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