leash

noun

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”

   “like a fawning greyhound in the leash”

2. (obsolete)A brace and a half; a tierce.
3. (obsolete)A set of three animals (especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares;)
4. (obsolete)A group of three.

   “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.”

   “An I could climb and lay my hand upon it, / 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. 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.

verb

1. To fasten or secure with a leash.
2. (figuratively)to curb, restrain

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