leash🔊

A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog. +

(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.

A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.

(surfing) A leg rope.

(prosody) A kind of metrical construct in Skeltonics.

To fasten or secure with a leash.

(figuratively) to curb, restrain