leash

leash is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A thong of leather, or a long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 8 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A thong of leather, or a long cord, by which a falconer holds his hawk, or a courser his dog.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.
4. transitive verb. To tie together, or hold, with a leash.
5. noun. a figurative restraint

   "asked for a collar on program trading in the stock market"

   "kept a tight leash on his emotions"

   Synonyms: collar

6. noun. restraint consisting of a rope (or light chain) used to restrain an animal

   Synonyms: lead, tether

7. noun. the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one

   Synonyms: iii, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity

8. verb. fasten with a rope

   "rope the bag securely"

   Synonyms: rope

Synonyms

collar, lead, tether, iii, tercet, ternary, ternion, terzetto, three, threesome, tierce, trey, triad, trine, trinity, trio, triplet, troika, rope

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in leash:

hales, halse, heals, helas, selah, shale, sheal, shela

Common word forms

leashed, leashes, leashing, leashless

Words from these letters

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