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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/ ː /
noun
- poetic.a meadow or field
- land that has been sown with grass seed
lea
3/ ː /
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
Word History and Origins
Origin of lea1
Word 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;
"With your blood, Camellia, we will usher in a new form of beauty work that will make the kingdom millions of leas and billions of spintria."
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