Lea

ahd-5
  • noun. A grassland; a meadow.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A scythe.
  • noun. Open, untilled land, usually in grass, or pasture-land; a meadow or grassy plain; a stretch of level fields or commons.
  • noun. Hence Any field; any level geographical surface.
  • noun. Fallow land; lealand.
  • Untilled; fallow: said of land. Compare lealand, layland.
  • noun. Same as lay, 8.
  • noun. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A measure of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards; a lay.
  • noun. A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.
  • noun. A meadow or sward land; a grassy field.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards; a lay.
  • noun. an open field, meadow
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a unit of length of thread or yarn
  • noun. a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
  • Word Usage
    "Nordhausen in the morning: the lea is a green salad, crisp with raindrops."
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