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lea
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What does lea mean?
noun
- An open field, meadow, pasture.
- Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards (275 m); for cotton, 120 yards (110 m).
- A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.
More meanings (12)
noun
- Initialism of law enforcement agency.
- Initialism of local electoral area.
- (historical) Initialism of local education authority.
proper noun
- A female given name from Hebrew, form of Leah.
- An English surname from Middle English, a variant of Lee.
- A river in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex and Greater London, England, also called the Lee, which flows into the River Thames at Poplar.
- A village in Dethick, Lea and Holloway parish, Amber Valley borough, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK3257).
- A village and civil parish in south-east Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO6521).
- A village and civil parish in the City of Preston, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4930).
- A village and civil parish in West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK8286).
- A village in Lea and Cleverton parish, north Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9586).
- A former civil parish in Cheshire East, Cheshire, England, merged into Doddington and District civil parish in 2023.
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The green lea was speckled as thickly with them as a canvas by Van Alsloot or Sallaert with burghers.
Till out of the wood he burst on a lea, Shouting and calling, “Come after me!”
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Tom Lea, of El Paso, may be quitting painting and drawing to spend the remainder of his life in writing.
For a concise and admirable statement of the contents and effects of the bull, see Lea, History of the Inquisition, vol. iii, pp.
All night I had lain in my buffalo-bag, under the lea of a windbreak of branches, in the clump of fir-trees, where I had halted the preceding evening.