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lea
1[ lee, ley ]
noun
- a tract of open ground, especially grassland; meadow.
- land used for a few years for pasture or for growing hay, then plowed over and replaced by another crop.
- a crop of hay on tillable land.
adjective
- untilled; fallow.
lea
2[ lee ]
noun
- a measure of yarn of varying quantity, for wool usually 80 yards (73 meters), cotton and silk 120 yards (110 meters), linen 300 yards (274 meters).
- Textiles.
- a unit length used to ascertain the linear density of yarns.
- a count or number representing units of linear measure per pound in linen or cotton yarn:
a 20-lea yarn.
Lea
3[ lee lee-uh ]
lea.
4abbreviation for
- league.
- leather.
LEA
1abbreviation for
- Local Education Authority
lea
2/ ±ô¾±Ë /
noun
- poetic.a meadow or field
- land that has been sown with grass seed
lea
3/ ±ô¾±Ë /
noun
- a unit for measuring lengths of yarn, usually taken as 80 yards for wool, 120 yards for cotton and silk, and 300 yards for linen
- a measure of yarn expressed as the length per unit weight, usually the number of leas per pound
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of lea1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of lea1
Origin of lea2
Example Sentences
Below us, the mountains rested under a knitted duvet of forest green, its smoothness only occasionally disturbed by the dropped stitch of a house or a small pea-green lea.
It was a very grey day; a most opaque sky, “onding on snaw,†canopied all; thence flakes fell at intervals, which settled on the hard path and on the hoary lea without melting.
And flow down to the vales and leas;
I pay them each a pouch of spintria and leas coins and ask them to help me mess up the room.
It's back for at leas two more seasons: http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/power-renewed-for-two-more-seasons-by-st...
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