collar, leash
(noun) a figurative restraint; “asked for a collar on program trading in the stock market”; “kept a tight leash on his emotions”; “he’s always gotten a long leash”
leash, tether, lead
(noun) restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal
three, III, trio, threesome, tierce, leash, troika, triad, trine, trinity, ternary, ternion, triplet, tercet, terzetto, trey, deuce-ace
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
rope, leash
(verb) fasten with a rope; “rope the bag securely”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
leash (plural leashes)
A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
Synonym: lead
A brace and a half; a tierce.
A set of three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general.
• Ben Jonson
• Tennyson
A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
(surfing) A leg rope.
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
• unleash
• Hales, Heals, Sahel, Saleh, Selah, hales, halse, heals, selah, shale, sheal
Source: Wiktionary
Leash, n. Etym: [OE. lese, lees, leece, OF. lesse, F. laisse, LL.laxa, fr. L. laxus loose. See Lax.]
1. A thong of leather, or a long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog. Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash. Shak.
2. (Sporting)
Definition: A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general. [I] kept my chamber a leash of days. B. Jonson. Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings. Tennyson.
3. (Weaving)
Definition: A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
Leash, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Leashed; p. pr. & vb. n. Leashing.]
Definition: To tie together, or hold, with a leash.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 January 2025
(adjective) being or located on or directed toward the side of the body to the west when facing north; “my left hand”; “left center field”; “the left bank of a river is bank on your left side when you are facing downstream”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
