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leash | unleashable |

As a noun leash

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

As a verb leash

is to fasten or secure with a leash.

As an adjective unleashable is

unable to be leashed, or restrained.

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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    unleashable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unable to be leashed, or restrained
  • *{{quote-news, 1988, January 15, Bill Wyman, The four phases of Pink Floyd, Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=
  • Able to be unleashed
  • *{{quote-book, 2001, Darin Barney, Prometheus Wired citation
    • , passage=And when the efficiency or supply of coal, gas, and water came into doubt, the realm below was once again scoured for unleashable energy.}}