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lea

1

[ lee, ley ]

noun

  1. a tract of open ground, especially grassland; meadow.
  2. land used for a few years for pasture or for growing hay, then plowed over and replaced by another crop.
  3. a crop of hay on tillable land.


adjective

  1. untilled; fallow.

lea

2

[ lee ]

noun

  1. 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).
  2. Textiles.
    1. a unit length used to ascertain the linear density of yarns.
    2. 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 ]

noun

  1. Homer, 1876–1912, U.S. soldier and author: adviser 1911–12 to Sun Yat-sen in China.
  2. a female given name, form of Leah or Lee.

lea.

4

abbreviation for

  1. league.
  2. leather.

LEA

1

abbreviation for

  1. Local Education Authority
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

lea

2

/ ±ô¾±Ë /

noun

  1. poetic.
    a meadow or field
  2. land that has been sown with grass seed
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

lea

3

/ ±ô¾±Ë /

noun

  1. 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
  2. a measure of yarn expressed as the length per unit weight, usually the number of leas per pound
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of lea1

before 900; Middle English lege, lei, Old English ±ôŧ²¹³ó; cognate with Old High German ±ôųó, dialectal Dutch loo (as in Waterloo ), Latin ±ôÅ«³¦³Ü²õ

Origin of lea2

1350–1400; perhaps back formation from Middle English lese, variant of leash
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of lea1

Old English ±ôŧ²¹³ó; related to German dialect loh thicket

Origin of lea2

C14: of uncertain origin
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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.

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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.

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And flow down to the vales and leas;

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I pay them each a pouch of spintria and leas coins and ask them to help me mess up the room.

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