Usually means: Restraining strap for controlling animals.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. leash: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. leash: Merriam-Webster
  3. leash: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. leash: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. leash: Collins English Dictionary
  6. leash: Vocabulary.com
  7. Leash, leash: Wordnik
  8. leash: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. leash: Wiktionary
  10. leash: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. leash: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. leash: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Leash, leash: Dictionary.com
  14. leash: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. leash: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Leash (BDSM), Leash: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Leash: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. leash: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. leash: Rhymezone
  20. Leash: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. leash: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Leash (dog): American-Britih Dictionary
  23. leash: FreeDictionary.org
  24. leash: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. leash: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. leash: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. leash: Legal dictionary

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  1. leash: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. leash: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Leash: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Snowboarding Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Leash: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A strap, cord or rope with which to restrain an animal, often a dog.
noun:  (obsolete) A brace and a half; a tierce.
noun:  (obsolete) A set of three animals (especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares;)
noun:  (obsolete) A group of three.
noun:  A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
noun:  (surfing) A leg rope.
noun:  (prosody) A kind of metrical construct in Skeltonics.
verb:  To fasten or secure with a leash.
verb:  (figuratively) to curb, restrain

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