The dominant animal in a pack of animals, such as wolves or lions.
An animal placed in advance of others, especially on a team of horse, oxen, or dogs.
Something that leads or conducts.
(botany) A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
(Britain) The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.
(fishing) A section of line between the main fishing line and the snell of a hook, intended to be more resistant to bites and harder for a fish to detect than the main fishing line.
A piece of material at the beginning or end of a reel or roll to allow the material to the threaded or fed onto something, as a reel of film onto a projector or a roll of paper onto a rotary printing press.
(marketing) A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
(printing) A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
(plural) A row of dots, periods, or hyphens, used in tables of contents, etc., to lead the eye across a space to the right word or number.
(fishing) A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
(mining) A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
(nautical) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
(engineering) The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
