different between leash vs leashlike

English

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), from Latin laxa (“thong, a loose cord”), feminine form of laxus (“loose”); compare lax. Doublet of laisse.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /li??/
• Rhymes: -i??
• Homophone: Laois

Noun

leash (plural leashes)

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

   Synonym: lead

   • c. 1605-1610, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act I, Scene 6

     like a fawning greyhound in the leash

2. A brace and a half; a tierce.
3. A set of three animals (especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares;)
4. A group of three
   • 1597, Henry IV part 1, 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, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1

     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.

   • 1609, Ben Jonson, Epicœne, or The Silent Woman

     [I] kept my chamber a leash of days.

   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette

     Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings.

5. A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
6. (surfing) A leg rope.

Translations

Verb

leash (third-person singular simple present leashes, present participle leashing, simple past and past participle leashed)

1. To fasten or secure with a leash.
2. (figuratively) to curb, restrain
   • 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:

     Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.

Antonyms

• unleash (verb)

Translations

References

• leash in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “leash”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

Anagrams

• Hales, Heals, Sahel, Saleh, Selah, hales, halse, heals, selah, shale, sheal

English

Etymology

leash +? -like

Adjective

leashlike (comparative more leashlike, superlative most leashlike)

1. Resembling or characteristic of a leash.

Anagrams

• shalelike