leash
/liːʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.47 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A leg rope.
noun
A kind of metrical construct in Skeltonics.
Example Sentences
- "A stout woman upholstered in velvet, her flabby cheeks too much massaged, swirled by with her poodle straining at its leash"
- "like a fawning greyhound in the leash"
- "Coordinate term: brace"
- "Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by their Christian names, as, Tom, Dick, and Francis."
- "[I] kept my chamber a leash of days."
- "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."
Etymology
From Middle English leesshe, leysche, lesshe, a variant of more original lease, from Middle English lees, leese, leece, lese, from Old French lesse (modern French laisse), either from Latin laxa, feminine form of laxus (“loose”) or, more probably, from a deverbal of Old French lesser, laissier, from Latin laxāre (“loose”); compare lax. Doublet of laisse.
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Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /liːʃ/
- British English: /liːʃ/