WordDictionary

Noun:

• 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.
• Any person or thing that leads or conducts.
• A person or thing that leads in a certain field in terms of excellence, success, etc.
• 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.
• A pipe for conducting rain water from a roof to a cistern or to the ground.
• botany A fast-growing terminal shoot of a woody plant.
• engineering The drive wheel in any kind of machinery.
• fishing A net for leading fish into a pound, weir, etc.
• 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.
• marketing A loss leader or a popular product sold at a normal price.
• mining A branch or small vein, not important in itself, but indicating the proximity of a better one.
• music A performer who leads a band, choir, or a section of an orchestra.
• nautical A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.
• One having authority to direct.
• One who goes first.
• One who leads a political party or group of elected party members; sometimes used in titles.
• printing A type having a dot or short row of dots upon its face.
• in|_|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.
• UK The first, or the principal, editorial article in a newspaper; a leading or main editorial article; a lead story.