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語源

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.

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA^(key): /liːʃ/
• 韻: -iːʃ
• Homophone: Laois

名詞

leash (複数形 leashes)

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

   Synonym: lead

   • 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned:

     A stout woman upholstered in velvet, her flabby cheeks too much massaged, swirled by with her poodle straining at its leash

   • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi]:

     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, かつ hares;)
4. A group of three
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, かつ the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash of drawers; and can call them all by their Christian names, as, Tom, Dick, and Francis.

   • 1609 December (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Ben Jonson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, かつ the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     [I] kept my chamber a leash of days.

   • 1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, 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.

   • 1874, Alfred Tennyson, “Gareth and Lynette”, in Idylls of the King (The Works of Alfred Tennyson; V), cabinet edition, London: Henry S. King & Co., […], →OCLC, page 39:

     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. (surfing) A leg rope.
   • 1980 February, Drew Kampion, “As Years Roll By (1970's Retrospective”, in Surfing, page 43:

     Probably the idea was around before that, but the first photo of the leash in action was published that year

派生語

動詞

leash (三人称単数 現在形 leashes, 現在分詞 leashing, 過去形および過去分詞形 leashed)

1. To fasten or secure with a leash.
2. (figurative) 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.

反意語

• unleash (verb)

参照

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

アナグラム

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