leashn.

Brit.

/liːʃ/, U.S.

/liʃ/

Forms: α. Middle English lece, leesse, lees, Middle English–1500s les, lese, Middle English–1600s leace, lease, (Middle English leese, leys, lyes, 1500s leasse). β. Middle English Scottish leysche, Middle English–1600s lesh, Middle English lesshe, leeshe, Middle English–1500s Scottish lische, 1500s leysshe, leshe, leas(s)he, Scottish leish ( lish), leisch, lesch, (1600s leach), 1500s– leash.

Etymology: < Old French lesse, laisse (modern French laisse ) ? < Latin laxa feminine of laxus lax adj.

a. The thong or line in which hounds or coursing-dogs are held. †with the leash, †at a leash, on or in (the or a) leash. Proverbial phr. †as greyhound (let out) of leash.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swiftly [phrase]

on fastec1275

as greyhound (let out) of leasha1300

a good (also great, etc.) shake13..

in hastec1300

(wiþ) gret yre13..

in speeda1325

good speeda1400

on (also upon) the wing or one's wing1508

with post1569

on or upon the speed1632

on the run?1679

by the run1787

like a house on fire (also afire)1809

at the double-quick1834

with a run1834

fast and furious1851

at the double1860

at the rate of knots1892

for (or on) the (high) jump1905

like blue murder1914

the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > [noun] > leash for hounds

leasha1300

couplec1400

lyamc1400

coupling1607

dog couple1649

swingea1661

α.

a1300 St. Gregory 822 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen 57 68 Houndes þat were liȝt & lent To leten of lece, to cacche beste.

c1330 Arth. & Merl. 9126 (Kölbing) Merlin smot forþ, þai after dasse On aiþer half, so grehounde of lasse.

a1400 Coer de L. 1923 As greyhounds stricken out of lesse, Kyng Richard threst among the press.

a1400 Octouian 767 As glad as grehond y-lete of lese Florent was than.

c1440 Partonope 558 Her lees were as softe as sylk.

1475 Bk. Noblesse 16 Every man..had a masty hound at a lyes.

1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lxxxxii In comys another his houndes at his tayle With lynes and leshes and other lyke baggage.

1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 7 Beyng restrained and drawne backe from running at random with the leasse.

1579–80 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (1676) 1027 Having in his right hand a Club, and in his left land a Leace, unto the which Thyus was tied.

1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes i. xxviii. 130 Perceiving a Damsell comming in with two Lions in a lease, he went speedily down [etc.].

β. 1356–7 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 558 Pro catenis, chapes, et leshes, et uno Cornu pro venatore.., 7s. 11d.c1440 Ipomydon 785 Furthe he went with greyhondis thre, In a lesshe he dyd hem do.1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vii. 414 His leysche till him drew he, And leit his houndis gang all fre.1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. cxliii He that wyll labour a beast to hunt or chace..His lynes, colers, and lesshes he must dres.1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. ix. 104 He that the lische and lyame in schondir draue.1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 74/1 The Fewterer..shall receive the Greyhounds matched to run together, into his Leash, as soon as he comes into the Field.1808 W. Wordsworth Force of Prayer iii [He] holds a greyhound in a leash, To let slip upon buck or doe.1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft iv. 131 She led three greyhounds in a leash.1867 ‘Ouida’ Cecil Castlemaine's Gage 5 Fretting like staghounds held in leash.1888 Times 13 Oct. 7/6 The hounds, hunted on the leash.1888 Times 16 Oct. 10/5 The hound worked on leash from the spot where the deer had lodged.in extended use.1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus 11 in A. Pope Wks. II A Paper kite which had broke its leash by the impetuosity of the wind.

†b. the leash: (a) the department of the king's household concerned with the keeping of the hounds; (b) the art or practice of coursing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > [noun] > coursing

coursec1405

the leash1526

coursinga1552

jelly-dogging1889

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping dogs or cats > [noun] > keeping or affinity with dogs > keeper of hounds > department of royal household

the leash1526

1526 Eltham Ordinances in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 194 The charge of 68 loves of bread served to the officers of the Lesh for the expences of the Kings Greyhounds.

1552 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) II. xxxiii. 540 The office of child of the leashe to Iohn Streete for life, with the wages of 40s. by year.

1611 G. Markham Countrey Contentm. (1615) i. vii. 104 Touching the lawes of the lease or coursing.

1611 G. Markham Countrey Contentm. (1615) i. vii. 106 Those which are chosen Iudges of the leashe, shall giue their iudgements before they depart from the field.

c1628 Warrant in Verney Papers (1853) 180 Lord Compton, master of his majestys leash.

1665 Warrant in Sporting Mag. (1813) 42 10 Like as my perdecessors masters of the Leash.

2. A set of three; originally in Hunting, used of hounds, hawks, foxes, hares, deer, etc.; hence gen.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > [noun] > pack of hounds

leashc1330

mutec1350

cry1600

(the) houndsc1710

mew1766

stagger1865

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > group of three > [noun]

leashc1330

ternarya1464

trinity1542

three?1544

triad1546

trine1554

triplicity1585

ternion1587

pair royal1592

trinary1596

trias1610

gleek1615

triangle1621

triple1653

triumvirate1655

prial1776

trio1777

trefoil1826

trinomy1838

Pip, Squeak, and Wilfred1937

α.

c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 446 Tristrem hunters seiȝe ride, Les of houndes þai ledde.

1376–7 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 387 In uno lese et uno pare de turetteis.

1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 21424 Swyche houndys..God wot, I ha mo than a les.

1486 Bk. St. Albans F vj b A Lece of thessame haukis, iij.

1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 166 They cast off a cast or a lease of Sacres, which follow the peregrine Falcon.

1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia vi. 231 As we passed we see a lease of Bucks.

1690 J. Dryden Amphitryon iv. 42 I put in for a brace, or a lease.

1723 Duke of Wharton True Briton No. 15. ¶3 Giving their Suffrages for the Good of their Country..and this too, not by Couples or Leases, but by Scores, almost, at a time.

β. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xii. 181 Gawein..ledde in honde a leeshe of grehoundes, and ledde also two brace folowinge hym.a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Biiii Here is a leysshe of ratches to renne an hare.1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis Ded. sig. Aiv^v Thee therd [posy] (for I wyl present your lordship wyth a leshe).1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 7 Sirrha, I am sworne brother to a leash of drawers..Tom, Dicke, and Francis. 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iii. ii, in Wks. I. 555 I..kept my chamber a leash of daies for the anguish of it. 1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 9 Or Cerberus himself pronounce A Leash of Languages at once.1705 D. Defoe Double Welcome 10 A Leash of Armies on thy Plains appear.1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 51. ⁋8 A leash of hares to be potted by his wife.1792 Munchhausen's Trav. xxi. 88 I have acquired precisely nine hundred and ninety-nine leash of languages.1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. x. 256 A brace of wild ducks and a leash of teal.1838 ‘Nimrod’ Northern Tour 374 We found a leash of foxes, one after another.1872 Ld. Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 6 Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings.1882 Good Words 23 604 I contrived to bag a leash of trout.

3. Hawking. The thong or string which is passed through the varvels of the jesses to secure the hawk.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > falconry or hawking equipment > [noun] > leash

creance14..

loync1400

lunea1470

leash1497

line1590

1497 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 366 Item for chessis and lischis thare vjd.

1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 147 Tying..a cryance vnto your hawkes lease.

1614 S. Latham Falconry Explan. Wordes sig. ¶2 Lease or leashe is a small long thong of leather, by which the Faulconer holdeth his Hawke fast, folding it many times about their fingers.

1635 F. Quarles Emblemes v. ix. 278 But her too faithfull Leash does soone retaine Her broken flight, attempted oft in vaine.

1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation ii. 62 Lease or Leach.

1826 J. S. Sebright Observ. Hawking (1828) 11 When he has been furnished with the necessary appendages of hood, bells, jesses, and leash, he is to be tied to the block.

1874 Ld. Tennyson Merlin & Vivien (new ed.) in Wks. VI. 14 Their talk was all of..terms of art, Diet and seeling, jesses, leash and lure.

4. figurative (with allusion to senses 1, 3); esp. in phrases, to hold or have in leash, to have control over, keep in bondage.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > [noun] > bond(s) or fetter(s) or shackle(s)

bendc890

shacklea1000

bandc1175

bonda1325

aneus1360

warlockc1400

leashc1430

link?a1500

shackle1540

cramp-ring1567

locketa1643

restraint1650

pinion1733

manacle1838

span1856

society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (transitive)] > bring under control

temec897

subdue1483

subjugate?1518

to hold or have in leash1564

school1579

to saddle and bridle1646

to grab (also take) by the balls1934

c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iv. xl. 195 She is prioresse, whiche leedeth alle þe cloystreres in les, bounden bi hondes and bi feet.

1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 36 Wrath ledeth shame in a lese.

1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Wks. 422 For God hathe them in lease. Yea..they are his slaues.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 466 What I was, I am: More straining on, for plucking backe; not following My leash vnwillingly.

1648 R. Boyle Seraphic Love (1700) xii. 62 The ravish'd Soul being shewn such Game as that, would hate so eagerly, that she would break those Leashes that tye her to the Body.

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iv. i. 132 We lead along In leashes..The clouds that are heavy with love's sweet rain.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Love & Duty in Poems (new ed.) II. 85 Thy low voice,..would..hold passion in a leash.

1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. ii. v. 93 His ministers Must lure, not drag in leash.

1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax II. ii. 40 It was easy to see..that, did he once slip the leash of his passions, it would go hard with Richard Brithwood.

1858 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire VI. li. 24 The soldiers, long held in the leash..were eager to spring upon the foe.

†5. A snare, noose. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun]

grinc825

trapa1000

snarea1100

swikea1100

granea1250

springec1275

gina1300

gnarea1325

stringc1325

trebuchet1362

latch?a1366

leashc1374

snarlc1380

foot gina1382

foot-grina1382

traina1393

sinewa1400

snatcha1400

foot trapa1425

haucepyc1425

slingc1425

engine1481

swar1488

frame1509

brakea1529

fang1535

fall trap1570

spring1578

box-trapa1589

spring trapa1589

sprint1599

noosec1600

springle1602

springe1607

toil1607

plage1608

deadfall1631

puppy snatch1650

snickle1681

steel trap1735

figure (of) four1743

gun-trap1749

stamp1788

stell1801

springer1813

sprent1822

livetrap1823

snaphance1831

catch pole1838

twitch-up1841

basket-trap1866

pole trap1879

steel fall1895

tread-trap1952

conibear trap1957

conibear1958

c1374 G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite 233 With oon worde him list not oonys deyne To brynge ageyne my sorouful hert in pees, For he is kaught vp in a noþer lees.

1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. xxviii. 12 Looking upon the beauteous eyes, whence love Had made the leash to take me.

†6. Scottish. = lash n.¹ Obsolete. (Cf. leash v. 2.)

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > with whip or scourging > stroke or stripe

lashc1330

bendc1400

whipc1425

stripec1485

leash?a1513

jerk1555

scourge1741

switch1809

a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 203 Thow art bot gluntoch, with thy giltin hippis, That for thy lounry mony a leisch hes fyld.

1568 (a1508) W. Kennedy Flyting (Bannatyne) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 201 Lat him lay sax leichis on thy lendis.

7. Weaving.

a. One of the cords (having an eye in the middle to receive the warp-thread) which extend between the parallel laths of the heddle of a loom. Also written leish.

ΚΠ

1731 C. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 37 105 Some of these Frames are made like a Loom, with a Warp passed through the Leishes.

1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) II. ii. 49 The journeyman-weaver..transfers the lish or cord..to the..packthreads of the warp.

1878 A. Barlow Hist. & Princ. Weaving 77 The headles consist of two laths, between which are stretched the required number of ‘leashes’ usually made of linen thread, and having an eye formed in the middle of them.

b. = lease n.⁴ 2.

ΚΠ

1888 J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 463/2 At each end of the warp the threads are, by a mechanical device in the heck, made to intersect alternately, forming leashes, which are, when taken from the reel, separately tied up, and thus aid in maintaining the parallelism of the ends when they are bundled up.

Compounds

C1. attributive, as leash-hound, leash-man.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > that retrieves deer

limerc1369

string hound1631

leash-hound1679

1679 T. Blount Fragmenta Antiquitatis 46 Leash-hounds or Park-hounds, such as draw after a hurt Deer in a Leash or Liam.

c1817 J. Hogg Tales & Sketches II. 91 [He] ordered that the leashmen should exert themselves in recovering their scattered hounds.

C2.

† leash-law n. Obsolete (see quot.).

ΚΠ

1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Leash-Laws, are Laws to be observed in Hunting or Coursing.

Draft additions September 2016

Surfing. A cord or thong attached to the tail of a surfboard and fastened around the surfer’s ankle to prevent the board being washed away if he or she falls off.

ΚΠ

1971 Anderson (Indiana) Sunday Herald 7 Nov. 7/2 (caption) The leash is the newest gadget on the surfing scene, primarily used..to guide the board or to keep it from being washed away.

1989 G. Noll & A. Gabbard Da Bull 159 Everyone says I'm a menace to the surfers around me because I won't use a leash. I'm afraid I'll get hit with my own board!

2010 B. Marcus Surfing Handbk. 83 During the 1960s, surfers didn't wear leashes and Malibu was like a logjam of big lumber bashing around and injuring people.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	leash
释义	leashn. Brit. /liːʃ/, U.S. /liʃ/ Forms: α. Middle English lece, leesse, lees, Middle English–1500s les, lese, Middle English–1600s leace, lease, (Middle English leese, leys, lyes, 1500s leasse). β. Middle English Scottish leysche, Middle English–1600s lesh, Middle English lesshe, leeshe, Middle English–1500s Scottish lische, 1500s leysshe, leshe, leas(s)he, Scottish leish ( lish), leisch, lesch, (1600s leach), 1500s– leash. Etymology: < Old French lesse, laisse (modern French laisse ) ? < Latin laxa feminine of laxus lax adj. 1. a. The thong or line in which hounds or coursing-dogs are held. †with the leash, †at a leash, on or in (the or a) leash. Proverbial phr. †as greyhound (let out) of leash. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swiftly [phrase] on fastec1275 as greyhound (let out) of leasha1300 a good (also great, etc.) shake13.. in hastec1300 (wiþ) gret yre13.. in speeda1325 good speeda1400 on (also upon) the wing or one's wing1508 with post1569 on or upon the speed1632 on the run?1679 by the run1787 like a house on fire (also afire)1809 at the double-quick1834 with a run1834 fast and furious1851 at the double1860 at the rate of knots1892 for (or on) the (high) jump1905 like blue murder1914 the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > [noun] > leash for hounds leasha1300 couplec1400 lyamc1400 coupling1607 dog couple1649 swingea1661 α. a1300 St. Gregory 822 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen 57 68 Houndes þat were liȝt & lent To leten of lece, to cacche beste. c1330 Arth. & Merl. 9126 (Kölbing) Merlin smot forþ, þai after dasse On aiþer half, so grehounde of lasse. a1400 Coer de L. 1923 As greyhounds stricken out of lesse, Kyng Richard threst among the press. a1400 Octouian 767 As glad as grehond y-lete of lese Florent was than. c1440 Partonope 558 Her lees were as softe as sylk. 1475 Bk. Noblesse 16 Every man..had a masty hound at a lyes. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lxxxxii In comys another his houndes at his tayle With lynes and leshes and other lyke baggage. 1576 A. Fleming tr. J. Caius Of Eng. Dogges 7 Beyng restrained and drawne backe from running at random with the leasse. 1579–80 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (1676) 1027 Having in his right hand a Club, and in his left land a Leace, unto the which Thyus was tied. 1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes i. xxviii. 130 Perceiving a Damsell comming in with two Lions in a lease, he went speedily down [etc.]. β. 1356–7 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 558 Pro catenis, chapes, et leshes, et uno Cornu pro venatore.., 7s. 11d.c1440 Ipomydon 785 Furthe he went with greyhondis thre, In a lesshe he dyd hem do.1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vii. 414 His leysche till him drew he, And leit his houndis gang all fre.1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. cxliii He that wyll labour a beast to hunt or chace..His lynes, colers, and lesshes he must dres.1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. ix. 104 He that the lische and lyame in schondir draue.1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 74/1 The Fewterer..shall receive the Greyhounds matched to run together, into his Leash, as soon as he comes into the Field.1808 W. Wordsworth Force of Prayer iii [He] holds a greyhound in a leash, To let slip upon buck or doe.1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft iv. 131 She led three greyhounds in a leash.1867 ‘Ouida’ Cecil Castlemaine's Gage 5 Fretting like staghounds held in leash.1888 Times 13 Oct. 7/6 The hounds, hunted on the leash.1888 Times 16 Oct. 10/5 The hound worked on leash from the spot where the deer had lodged.in extended use.1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus 11 in A. Pope Wks. II A Paper kite which had broke its leash by the impetuosity of the wind. †b. the leash: (a) the department of the king's household concerned with the keeping of the hounds; (b) the art or practice of coursing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > [noun] > coursing coursec1405 the leash1526 coursinga1552 jelly-dogging1889 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping dogs or cats > [noun] > keeping or affinity with dogs > keeper of hounds > department of royal household the leash1526 1526 Eltham Ordinances in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 194 The charge of 68 loves of bread served to the officers of the Lesh for the expences of the Kings Greyhounds. 1552 in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) II. xxxiii. 540 The office of child of the leashe to Iohn Streete for life, with the wages of 40s. by year. 1611 G. Markham Countrey Contentm. (1615) i. vii. 104 Touching the lawes of the lease or coursing. 1611 G. Markham Countrey Contentm. (1615) i. vii. 106 Those which are chosen Iudges of the leashe, shall giue their iudgements before they depart from the field. c1628 Warrant in Verney Papers (1853) 180 Lord Compton, master of his majestys leash. 1665 Warrant in Sporting Mag. (1813) 42 10 Like as my perdecessors masters of the Leash. 2. A set of three; originally in Hunting, used of hounds, hawks, foxes, hares, deer, etc.; hence gen. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > [noun] > pack of hounds leashc1330 mutec1350 cry1600 (the) houndsc1710 mew1766 stagger1865 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > three > group of three > [noun] leashc1330 ternarya1464 trinity1542 three?1544 triad1546 trine1554 triplicity1585 ternion1587 pair royal1592 trinary1596 trias1610 gleek1615 triangle1621 triple1653 triumvirate1655 prial1776 trio1777 trefoil1826 trinomy1838 Pip, Squeak, and Wilfred1937 α. c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 446 Tristrem hunters seiȝe ride, Les of houndes þai ledde. 1376–7 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 387 In uno lese et uno pare de turetteis. 1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 21424 Swyche houndys..God wot, I ha mo than a les. 1486 Bk. St. Albans F vj b A Lece of thessame haukis, iij. 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 166 They cast off a cast or a lease of Sacres, which follow the peregrine Falcon. 1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia vi. 231 As we passed we see a lease of Bucks. 1690 J. Dryden Amphitryon iv. 42 I put in for a brace, or a lease. 1723 Duke of Wharton True Briton No. 15. ¶3 Giving their Suffrages for the Good of their Country..and this too, not by Couples or Leases, but by Scores, almost, at a time. β. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xii. 181 Gawein..ledde in honde a leeshe of grehoundes, and ledde also two brace folowinge hym.a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Biiii Here is a leysshe of ratches to renne an hare.1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis Ded. sig. Aiv^v Thee therd [posy] (for I wyl present your lordship wyth a leshe).1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 7 Sirrha, I am sworne brother to a leash of drawers..Tom, Dicke, and Francis. View more context for this quotation1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iii. ii, in Wks. I. 555 I..kept my chamber a leash of daies for the anguish of it. View more context for this quotation1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. i. 9 Or Cerberus himself pronounce A Leash of Languages at once.1705 D. Defoe Double Welcome 10 A Leash of Armies on thy Plains appear.1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 51. ⁋8 A leash of hares to be potted by his wife.1792 Munchhausen's Trav. xxi. 88 I have acquired precisely nine hundred and ninety-nine leash of languages.1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. x. 256 A brace of wild ducks and a leash of teal.1838 ‘Nimrod’ Northern Tour 374 We found a leash of foxes, one after another.1872 Ld. Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 6 Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings.1882 Good Words 23 604 I contrived to bag a leash of trout. 3. Hawking. The thong or string which is passed through the varvels of the jesses to secure the hawk. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > falconry or hawking equipment > [noun] > leash creance14.. loync1400 lunea1470 leash1497 line1590 1497 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 366 Item for chessis and lischis thare vjd. 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 147 Tying..a cryance vnto your hawkes lease. 1614 S. Latham Falconry Explan. Wordes sig. ¶2 Lease or leashe is a small long thong of leather, by which the Faulconer holdeth his Hawke fast, folding it many times about their fingers. 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes v. ix. 278 But her too faithfull Leash does soone retaine Her broken flight, attempted oft in vaine. 1686 R. Blome Gentlemans Recreation ii. 62 Lease or Leach. 1826 J. S. Sebright Observ. Hawking (1828) 11 When he has been furnished with the necessary appendages of hood, bells, jesses, and leash, he is to be tied to the block. 1874 Ld. Tennyson Merlin & Vivien (new ed.) in Wks. VI. 14 Their talk was all of..terms of art, Diet and seeling, jesses, leash and lure. 4. figurative (with allusion to senses 1, 3); esp. in phrases, to hold or have in leash, to have control over, keep in bondage. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > [noun] > bond(s) or fetter(s) or shackle(s) bendc890 shacklea1000 bandc1175 bonda1325 aneus1360 warlockc1400 leashc1430 link?a1500 shackle1540 cramp-ring1567 locketa1643 restraint1650 pinion1733 manacle1838 span1856 society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (transitive)] > bring under control temec897 subdue1483 subjugate?1518 to hold or have in leash1564 school1579 to saddle and bridle1646 to grab (also take) by the balls1934 c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iv. xl. 195 She is prioresse, whiche leedeth alle þe cloystreres in les, bounden bi hondes and bi feet. 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 36 Wrath ledeth shame in a lese. 1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Wks. 422 For God hathe them in lease. Yea..they are his slaues. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 466 What I was, I am: More straining on, for plucking backe; not following My leash vnwillingly. View more context for this quotation 1648 R. Boyle Seraphic Love (1700) xii. 62 The ravish'd Soul being shewn such Game as that, would hate so eagerly, that she would break those Leashes that tye her to the Body. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound iv. i. 132 We lead along In leashes..The clouds that are heavy with love's sweet rain. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Love & Duty in Poems (new ed.) II. 85 Thy low voice,..would..hold passion in a leash. 1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. ii. v. 93 His ministers Must lure, not drag in leash. 1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax II. ii. 40 It was easy to see..that, did he once slip the leash of his passions, it would go hard with Richard Brithwood. 1858 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire VI. li. 24 The soldiers, long held in the leash..were eager to spring upon the foe. †5. A snare, noose. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > equipment > trap or snare > [noun] grinc825 trapa1000 snarea1100 swikea1100 granea1250 springec1275 gina1300 gnarea1325 stringc1325 trebuchet1362 latch?a1366 leashc1374 snarlc1380 foot gina1382 foot-grina1382 traina1393 sinewa1400 snatcha1400 foot trapa1425 haucepyc1425 slingc1425 engine1481 swar1488 frame1509 brakea1529 fang1535 fall trap1570 spring1578 box-trapa1589 spring trapa1589 sprint1599 noosec1600 springle1602 springe1607 toil1607 plage1608 deadfall1631 puppy snatch1650 snickle1681 steel trap1735 figure (of) four1743 gun-trap1749 stamp1788 stell1801 springer1813 sprent1822 livetrap1823 snaphance1831 catch pole1838 twitch-up1841 basket-trap1866 pole trap1879 steel fall1895 tread-trap1952 conibear trap1957 conibear1958 c1374 G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite 233 With oon worde him list not oonys deyne To brynge ageyne my sorouful hert in pees, For he is kaught vp in a noþer lees. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. xxviii. 12 Looking upon the beauteous eyes, whence love Had made the leash to take me. †6. Scottish. = lash n.¹ Obsolete. (Cf. leash v. 2.) ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > with whip or scourging > stroke or stripe lashc1330 bendc1400 whipc1425 stripec1485 leash?a1513 jerk1555 scourge1741 switch1809 a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 203 Thow art bot gluntoch, with thy giltin hippis, That for thy lounry mony a leisch hes fyld. 1568 (a1508) W. Kennedy Flyting (Bannatyne) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 201 Lat him lay sax leichis on thy lendis. 7. Weaving. a. One of the cords (having an eye in the middle to receive the warp-thread) which extend between the parallel laths of the heddle of a loom. Also written leish. ΚΠ 1731 C. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 37 105 Some of these Frames are made like a Loom, with a Warp passed through the Leishes. 1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) II. ii. 49 The journeyman-weaver..transfers the lish or cord..to the..packthreads of the warp. 1878 A. Barlow Hist. & Princ. Weaving 77 The headles consist of two laths, between which are stretched the required number of ‘leashes’ usually made of linen thread, and having an eye formed in the middle of them. b. = lease n.⁴ 2. ΚΠ 1888 J. Paton in Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 463/2 At each end of the warp the threads are, by a mechanical device in the heck, made to intersect alternately, forming leashes, which are, when taken from the reel, separately tied up, and thus aid in maintaining the parallelism of the ends when they are bundled up. Compounds C1. attributive, as leash-hound, leash-man. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > hound > [noun] > that retrieves deer limerc1369 string hound1631 leash-hound1679 1679 T. Blount Fragmenta Antiquitatis 46 Leash-hounds or Park-hounds, such as draw after a hurt Deer in a Leash or Liam. c1817 J. Hogg Tales & Sketches II. 91 [He] ordered that the leashmen should exert themselves in recovering their scattered hounds. C2. † leash-law n. Obsolete (see quot.). ΚΠ 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Leash-Laws, are Laws to be observed in Hunting or Coursing. Draft additions September 2016 Surfing. A cord or thong attached to the tail of a surfboard and fastened around the surfer’s ankle to prevent the board being washed away if he or she falls off. ΚΠ 1971 Anderson (Indiana) Sunday Herald 7 Nov. 7/2 (caption) The leash is the newest gadget on the surfing scene, primarily used..to guide the board or to keep it from being washed away. 1989 G. Noll & A. Gabbard Da Bull 159 Everyone says I'm a menace to the surfers around me because I won't use a leash. I'm afraid I'll get hit with my own board! 2010 B. Marcus Surfing Handbk. 83 During the 1960s, surfers didn't wear leashes and Malibu was like a logjam of big lumber bashing around and injuring people. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). leashv. Brit. /liːʃ/, U.S. /liʃ/ Forms: Also 1600s lease. Etymology: < leash n. 1. a. transitive. To attach or connect by a leash. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping dogs or cats > [verb (transitive)] > exercise dog > attach leash leasha1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) Prol. 7 And at his heeles (Leasht in, like Hounds) should Famine, Sword, and Fire Crouch for employment. View more context for this quotation a1658 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Posthume Poems (1659) 33 Cerberus from below Must leash'd t' himself with him a hunting go. 1863 W. Phillips Speeches xvii. 374 We were then two snarling hounds leashed together. b. figurative. To link together, esp. in threes. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > connect [verb (transitive)] > link together link?a1412 enlink1560 in link1581 interchain1600 concatenate1622 interlink1622 enchain1642 necklace1702 leash1854 to link up1897 1854 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 15 i. 18 I prefer leashing together these points of the discussion. 1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. x. 366 He [sc. Crashaw] was a much younger man than either of the poets with whom we have leashed him. 1898 Reade in New Century Rev. IV. 501 Yet were these rivals leashed by sacred ties. 2. †To beat or lash with a leash (obsolete); to whip (dialect). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > whip or scourge swingc725 scourc1386 whipc1386 lash1398 bescourgea1400 swaipa1400 flail14.. belash1458 stripec1460 leash1503 flagelle1551 swingea1556 breech1573 lace1599 flagellate1623 slash1631 chawbuck1682 innocentize1708 swepe1710 belace1736 screenge1787 yedder1818 stock-whip1852 rawhide1858 1503 Sc. Acts Jas. IV, c. 103 (1566) Gif ony childer..commit ony of thir thingis..their fathers..sall..deliuer the said childe to the juge, to be leichit, scurgeit and dung. 1583 J. Balfour Practicks (1754) 27 Ordanis the Dean of Gilde..to gar leisch barnis that perturbis the kirk. 1592 J. Lyly Midas iv. iii. E 4 If I catch thee in the forest, thou shalt be leasht... A boy leasht on the single. 1677 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 2) ii. 81 In many cases heretofore, Leasing was observed; that is, one must be held, either cross a Saddle, or on a mans Back, and with a pair of Dog-couples receive ten pound and a Purse; that is, ten stripes,..and an eleventh, that used to be as bad as the other ten, called a Purse. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Leash, leesh, to whip. ‘Leesh yor horse up, man’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1300v.1503
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