Meanings
verblet someone loose (third-person singular simple present lets someone loose, present participle letting someone loose, simple past and past participle let someone loose)
present singular third person lets someone loose · participle present letting someone loose
- To allow someone free discretion on a task.
"I fancy you would like to attend to Molly yourself, your Ladyship. If I let you both loose for that purpose, will you promise to allow yourselves to be fastened again in such a way as I may indicate?"
1908, anonymous author, The Way of a Man with a Maid, Volume 2 Chapter 9
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