leash

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /liːʃ/    美 /liːʃ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
    — A stout woman upholstered in velvet, her flabby cheeks too much massaged, swirled by with her poodle straining at its leash
  2. A brace and a half; a tierce. obsolete
  3. A set of three animals (especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares;) obsolete
  4. A group of three. obsolete
    — Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by their Christian names, as, Tom, Dick, and Francis.
  5. A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
  6. A leg rope.
    — Probably the idea was around before that, but the first photo of the leash in action was published that year
  7. A kind of metrical construct in Skeltonics.
动词 v.
  1. To fasten or secure with a leash.
  2. to curb, restrain figuratively
    — Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.

词形变化

leashes plural leashes present,singular,third-person leashing participle,present leashed participle,past leashed past

词汇关系

反义词
unleash
衍生词
in leash leashless leashlike off-leash on a tight leash on-leash short leash strain at the leash traffic leash urinary leash unleashable

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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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