A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to
keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.
See 2d Leach.
See Leach, v. t.
The border or edge at the side of a sail. [Written also leach.] Leech line, a line attached to the leech ropes of sails, passing up through blocks on the yards, to haul the leeches by. Totten. -- Leech rope, that part of the bo...