- a long piece of leather, chain or rope used for holding and controlling a dog
- on a leash All dogs must be kept on a leash in public places.
- Once she was away from the road, she could let the dogs off the leash.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryLeash is used after these nouns:- dog
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French lesse, laisse, from laissier in the specific sense ‘let run on a slack lead’, from Latin laxare ‘make loose’, from laxus ‘loose, lax’.Definitions on the go
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Idioms
See leash in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarystrain at the leash
- (informal) to want to do something very much
- Like all youngsters, he's straining at the leash to leave home.
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