# leash
## English
### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /liːʃ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːʃ
* Homophone: Laois

### Noun

leash (plural leashes)
* A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
    Synonym: lead
** 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned:A stout woman upholstered in velvet, her flabby cheeks too much massaged, swirled by with her poodle straining at its leash
** c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi]:like a fawning greyhound in the leash
* (obsolete) A brace and a half; a tierce.
* (obsolete) A set of three animals (especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares;)
* (obsolete) A group of three.
** 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 Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by their Christian names, as, Tom, Dick, and Francis.
** 1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):[I] kept my chamber a leash of days.
** 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto I.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:It had an odd promiscuous tone, / As if h' had talk'd three parts in one; / Which made some think, when he did gabble, / Th' had heard three labourers of Babel; / Or Cerberus himself pronounce / A leash of languages at once.
** 1874, Alfred Tennyson, “Gareth and Lynette”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; V), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 39:An I could climb and lay my hand upon it, / Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings.
* A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
* (surfing) A leg rope.
** 1980 February, Drew Kampion, “As Years Roll By (1970's Retrospective”, in Surfing, page 43:Probably the idea was around before that, but the first photo of the leash in action was published that year
* (prosody) A kind of metrical construct in Skeltonics.

#### Derived terms

* in leash
* off-leash
* on a tight leash
* on-leash
* short leash
* traffic leash
* urinary leash

#### Translations

Afrikaans: leiband
Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: رِبَاط (ar) m (ribāṭ)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: шво́рка f (švórka), павадо́к m (pavadók), пры́вязь f (prývjazʹ)
Bulgarian: каишка (bg) f (kaiška)
Catalan: corretja (ca)
Chickasaw: ishtalakchi', shtalakchi'
Chinese:
Mandarin: 皮帶 / 皮带 (zh) (pídài), 紲 / 绁 (zh) (xiè) or 絏 / 绁 (zh) (xiè)
Czech: vodítko (cs) n
Danish: hundesnor
Dutch: lijn (nl) f
Egyptian: (sšd m)
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: talutushihna (fi), talutin (fi), hihna (fi), lieka (fi)
French: laisse (fr) f
Galician: trela (gl) f, correa (gl) f
Georgian: საბელი (ka) (sabeli)
German: Leine (de) f, Hundeleine (de) f
Greek: λουρί (el) n (lourí)
Ancient: κυνοῦχος m (kunoûkhos)
Hebrew: רצועה להולכת כלב
Hindi: please add this translation if you can
Hungarian: póráz (hu)
Italian: guinzaglio (it) m
Japanese: 綱 (ja) (つな, tsuna), 革紐 (かわひも, kawahimo), リード (ja) (rīdo)
Khmer: ខ្សែ (km) (ksae)
Korean: 목줄 (mokjul)
Luxembourgish: Léngt f
Macedonian: ре́мен m (rémen), ре́менче n (rémenče), ка́иш m (káiš), по́водник m (póvodnik), ла́нец (mk) m (lánec)
Malay: cawak (ms)
Maori: taura here, pōtete
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Nepali: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian: leiebånd n, kobbel n, lenke (no) m or f
Occitan: estaca (oc) f, cordilha f
Persian: قلاده (fa) (qallâde)
Polish: smycz (pl) f
Portuguese: trela (pt) f, guia (pt) f
Romanian: lesă (ro) f
Russian: поводо́к (ru) m (povodók), при́вязь (ru) f (prívjazʹ), сво́ра (ru) f (svóra) (for borzoi dogs), по́вод (ru) m (póvod)
Scottish Gaelic: iall f, lomhainn f
Serbo-Croatian: поводац m, povodac (sh) m
Slovak: vôdzka (sk) f
Spanish: correa (es) f, traílla (es) f, laja (es) f (disused)
Swedish: koppel (sv) n
Thai: สายจูง (sǎai-juung)
Tibetan: འདོགས་ཐག ('dogs thag)
Turkish: tasma (tr)
Ukrainian: повіде́ць m (povidécʹ), поводо́к m (povodók), шво́ра f (švóra) (for borzoi dogs), при́в'язь f (prývʺjazʹ)
Welsh: tennyn m
Yiddish: הונטרימען m (huntrimen) :

### Verb

leash (third-person singular simple present leashes, present participle leashing, simple past and past participle leashed)
* To fasten or secure with a leash.
* (figuratively) to curb, restrain
** 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.

#### Antonyms

* unleash (verb)

#### Translations
### References

* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “leash”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “leash”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
* ↑ “leash”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* helas, hales, Selah, heals, Sahel, Saleh, sheal, shale, selah, Heals, Halse, halse, Hales, Shalë