"leading-string" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "leading-strings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "leading-string (plural leading-strings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 396",
          "text": "her lover [...] treated me in all respects as a perfect infant. To say the truth, I wonder she had not insisted on my again wearing leading-strings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 74",
          "text": "Highly protective – Louis wore leading strings until he was seven, a corset for his posture until he was ten – his guardians cocooned him from a wide range of normal childhood experiences.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Strings with which children were formerly guided while they were learning to walk."
      ],
      "id": "en-leading-string-en-noun-I4i8pt80",
      "links": [
        [
          "Strings",
          "strings"
        ],
        [
          "children",
          "children"
        ],
        [
          "walk",
          "walk"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, usually in the plural) Strings with which children were formerly guided while they were learning to walk."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "plural-normally"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "pómoči",
          "sense": "strings with which children were formerly guided while they were learning to walk",
          "tags": [
            "also",
            "figuratively",
            "plural"
          ],
          "word": "по́мочи"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "leading-string"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "leading-strings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "leading-string (plural leading-strings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 396",
          "text": "her lover [...] treated me in all respects as a perfect infant. To say the truth, I wonder she had not insisted on my again wearing leading-strings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 74",
          "text": "Highly protective – Louis wore leading strings until he was seven, a corset for his posture until he was ten – his guardians cocooned him from a wide range of normal childhood experiences.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Strings with which children were formerly guided while they were learning to walk."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Strings",
          "strings"
        ],
        [
          "children",
          "children"
        ],
        [
          "walk",
          "walk"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(historical, usually in the plural) Strings with which children were formerly guided while they were learning to walk."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical",
        "plural-normally"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pómoči",
      "sense": "strings with which children were formerly guided while they were learning to walk",
      "tags": [
        "also",
        "figuratively",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "по́мочи"
    }
  ],
  "word": "leading-string"
}