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leigh
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What does leigh mean?
proper noun
- A surname from Middle English, variant of Lee.
- A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
- A female given name, Female equivalent of Lee.
More meanings (9)
proper noun
- A town in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester (OS grid ref SD6500).
- A village and civil parish in Dorset (OS grid ref ST6108).
- The Leigh, a hamlet and civil parish in Tewkesbury borough, Gloucestershire (OS grid ref SO8626).
- A village and civil parish in Sevenoaks district, Kent (OS grid ref TQ5446). Former spelling: Lyghe.
- A civil parish in East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, which includes Church Leigh, Lower Leigh and Upper Leigh.
- A village and civil parish in Mole Valley district, Surrey (OS grid ref TQ2246).
- A village and civil parish in north Wiltshire (OS grid ref SU0692).
- A small village and civil parish (served by Leigh and Bransford Parish Council) in Malvern Hills district, Worcestershire (OS grid ref SO7853).
noun
- (archaic) A meadow.
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They who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child.--Leigh Hunt.
As related by Sergeant Leigh on the night he got his captaincy at the Restoration.
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The speaker, whose name was understood to be Leigh, then requested a cheer for the actors, to show that no disrespect was intended them.
This view, somewhat softened, we find also in Leigh Hunt, whose whole account of Dante is an excellent specimen of this sort of criticism.
Another obscure mechanic, a reed-maker of Leigh, named Thomas Highs, is also said to have invented the water-frame and spinning-jenny; but they, too, proved unsuccessful.