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American Heritage Dictionary (1 definition)
- A grassland; a meadow.
–noun
Century Dictionary (7 definitions)
- Untilled; fallow: said of land. Compare lealand, layland.
- Hence Any field; any level geographical surface.
- Same as lay, 8.
- A scythe.
- 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.
- Fallow land; lealand.
- Open, untilled land, usually in grass, or pasture-land; a meadow or grassy plain; a stretch of level fields or commons.
–noun
GNU Webster's 1913 (3 definitions)
WordNet (2 definitions)
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- Nordhausen in the morning: the lea is a green salad, crisp with raindrops.—Gravitys Rainbow
As to your request, I have pleasure in lea\ in Every-body!
Gee, lea was on the 10th anniversary as eponine ... now, 15 yrs later she'll be fantine on this momentous event! what a talent lea is indeed!
And the red-oaks that border the lea are aflame with the fire of the sunset,
That is called the lea of Lymdale 'twixt the wood and the water-side;
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Middle English leie, from Old English lēah; see leuk- in Indo-European roots.
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