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Leash vs Rein - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between leash and rein

is that leash is a strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog while rein is a strap or rope attached to the bridle or bit, used to control a horse, animal or young child.

As verbs the difference between leash and rein

is that leash is to fasten or secure with a leash while rein is to direct or stop a horse by using reins.

leash

English

Noun

(es)
  • A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
  • * Shakespeare
    • like a fawning greyhound in the leash
  • 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.
  • * 1597 , , by Shakespeare
    • Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by their Christian names, as, Tom, Dick, and Francis.
  • * 1663 ,
    • 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.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • [I] kept my chamber a leash of days.
  • * Tennyson
    • 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: Probably the idea was around before that, but the first photo of the leash in action was published that year'' — ''As Years Roll By (1970's Retrospective) , Drew Kampion, magazine, February 1980, page 43. Quoted at surfresearch.com.au glossary[http://www.surfresearch.com.au/agl.html].

    Synonyms

    * (strap or cord used to restrain a dog)

    Verb

    (es)
  • To fasten or secure with a leash.
  • (figuratively) to curb, restrain
  • * 1919 , :
    • Man is brow-beaten, leashed , muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.

    Antonyms

    * unleash

    References

    * * (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    rein

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) reyne, from (etyl) resne (Modern French .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A strap or rope attached to the bridle or bit, used to control a horse, animal or young child.
  • (figurative) An instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing.
  • * Milton
    • Let their eyes rove without rein .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To direct or stop a horse by using reins.
  • * Chapman
    • He mounts and reins his horse.
  • To restrain; to control; to check.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Being once chafed, he cannot / Be reined again to temperance.
    Derived terms
    * rein in

    Derived terms

    * free rein * hold the reins * keep a tight rein on * draw rein * rein back * rein in * rein up * take the reins

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) reines, (etyl) reins, and their source, (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A kidney.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:a man subject to these like imaginations.
  • *1611 , (King James Bible), :
  • *:He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins .
  • The inward impulses; the affections and passions, formerly supposed to be located in the area of the kidneys.
  • *Bible, Proverbs xxiii. 16
  • *:My reins rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
  • *Bible, Revelations ii. 23
  • *:I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts.

    • Anagrams

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