leashed

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liːʃt/
• Rhymes: -iːʃt

Verb

leashed

1. simple past and past participle of leash

Adjective

leashed (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Having a leash of a specified color.
   • 1881, Robert Riddle Stodart, Scottish Arms: Being a Collection of Armorial Bearings, A.D. 1370-1678, Reproduced in Fascimile from Contemporary Manuscripts, page 59:

     In the registration for William, Earl of Dundonald, 1672-78, the same person, the boars' heads are armed and langued of the field, and the supporters are collared or and leashed gules.

   • 1895, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, and Being the First Attempt to Show which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority, page 783:

     [...] a sleuthhound proper, collared and leashed gules.

   • 1900, The Celtic Monthly: A Magazine for Highlanders, page 169:

     [...] on the dexter a greyhound proper collared and leashed gules, on the sinister an ostrich proper, in its beak a horse shoe azure.

   • 1902, Lincoln's Inn (London, England), The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn, page 377:

     Supporters; Two greyhounds per fess argent and or, collared and leashed gules, suspended from the collar, a shield azure , charged with the Speaker's Mace in pale or; and each charged on the flank with a thistle proper.

Anagrams

• shealed