Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A grassland; a meadow.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as lay, 8.
- n. One of the sets of alternating threads into which the yarns of a loom are divided by the harness system so as to form the shed.
- n. A scythe.
- n. Open, untilled land, usually in grass, or pasture-land; a meadow or grassy plain; a stretch of level fields or commons.
- n. Hence Any field; any level geographical surface.
- n. Fallow land; lealand.
- Untilled; fallow: said of land. Compare lealand, layland.
Wiktionary
- n. an open field, meadow
- n. Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards; a lay.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A measure of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards; a lay.
- n. A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.
- n. A meadow or sward land; a grassy field.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a unit of length of thread or yarn
- n. a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
Etymologies
- Middle English leie, from Old English lēah; see leuk- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“Despite all human efforts, our best-laid plans indeed Gang aft a-gley, an' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain.”
“Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note, whilst significant amendments have been listed below: pp. iii, 31, "MCANDREW'S HYMN" amended to _MCANDREWS 'HYMN_; p. 89, "lea" amended to _lee_:”
“Category: julianne smoot, lea berman, meet the new boss, social secretary”
“On September 11th 2009, lea wrote: hi i love it alot”
“On July 6th 2009, lea pattinson wrote: lol thats funny. but that red thing is small so lol i guess hes small. if yoo no wut i mean, lol”
“I truly hope they get a long time in jail for their horrifying act. lea cheatham”
“The Melaque beach is protected by a spine of guano covered rocks on the northwest, and the surf there is quiet; Barra is tucked into the lea of a muscular bulge of hills but it is open to the ocean swell, and the surf is challenging for unskilled swimmers.”
Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude
“Lea 1 year ago hi, I just luv learning stuff ...lea”
“Wer'e off to outerspace/Wer'e lea-ving Mother Earth/To save the human raaacce/ music-duh,duh,duh DUH,DUH,DUHsing it with me!”
“A day later, at lea st 16 Kurdish activists, including a prominent female poet, were also detained.”
The Wall Street Journal: Tehran Executes 2 Political Prisoners
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lea’.
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words 2
janiform, remora, sprat, stoa, sone, lea, scow, atoll, Weltschmerz, barmy, concupiscent, actinic and 12 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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Vocab
All the words I've come across whose definitions I did not know then.
aberration, abrogate, abscond, abstruse, acolyte, actuate, adulation, advert, aggrandize, aggro, ague, alimony and 273 more...
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the earth
Planetary chaos: terrain, landscape and geology excluding rocks. (See "the geologist" list for the latter.)
butte, karst, caldera, mesa, laccolith, cwm, crater, alp, precipice, sierra, badlands, prairie and 121 more...
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NakedFringe's Words
masticate, chamber, orchid, mandolin, yellow, pomegranate, conundrum, paradox, gyrate, calamitous, opalescent, cacophony and 522 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1359 more...
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Jane Eyre
abigail, sanguine, chancel, bourne, peremptorily, parley, unwonted, fagging, convolvuli, tarry, insuperable, execrations and 190 more...
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A List Made in 2002
vintner, bier, cope, vestment, antiphon, pastiche, hoary, sectarian, irrupt, recondite, quail, wanton and 680 more...
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(more or less) Temporary Urth List
Temporary list is temporary.
Collecting a few words here, which are then to be alloted to other lists.vassal, gnaw, putrescence, liege, pederasty, disseminate, loot, waning, fitful, hiatuse, plow, pious and 292 more...
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nominative case collection
wine stopper, pyre, roster, hamper, moleskin, elastic, pinnacle, facsimile, nook, plonk, contortionist, dismay and 342 more...
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kant's Words
mandrágora, doppelganger, sinestesia, baladí, adriático, chanson, correveidile, angster, dèja vu, otredad, grasshopper, republic and 1074 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2707 more...
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deidionysus's list
Words, words, words!
cartesian, shavian, dithyramb, dreadnaught, lea, adamantine, titanomachy, theomachy, aethereal, ambrosia, ambrosial, aether and 183 more...
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Lay of the Land
all kinds of scapes
steppe, veld, veldt, campo, llano, taiga, krummholz, elfinwood, tundra, sward, lea, heath and 196 more...
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Instant gratification
babyfy, serendipity, doodad, callipygian, oolong, typeractive, cupidity, floozie, gadzooks, noontide, acquiescence, inspiration and 27 more...
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faux comparatives
temp, temper, tempest, hone, honer, honest, dive, diver, divest, earn, earner, earnest and 46 more...
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