leash

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

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

like a fawning greyhound in the leash

A brace and a half; a tierce.

A set of three animals (especially greyhounds, foxes, bucks, and hares;)

A group of three.

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

[I] kept my chamber a leash of days.

A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom.

To fasten or secure with a leash.

to curb, restrain

Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled, masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.