Word Meanings - LEASH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general. kept my chamber a leash of days. B. Jonson. Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings. Tennyson.

Additional info about word: LEASH

A brace and a half; a tierce; three; three creatures of any kind, especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares; hence, the number three in general. kept my chamber a leash of days. B. Jonson. Then were I wealthier than a leash of kings. Tennyson. (more info) 1. A thong of leather, or a long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog. Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash. Shak.

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