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Leaguer

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A siege.

    "We must break the leaguer of the city."

  2. 2
    A person in a league in-compounds, usually

    "I'm not a major-leaguer; I just play baseball."

  3. 3
    A measure of liquid.

    "Excise duty had to be paid on each leaguer of brandy exported."

  4. 4
    The camp of a besieging army; a camp in general.

    "Your sutler's wife in the leaguer, of two blanks"

Verb
  1. 1
    To set up camp.

    "So we leaguer here, get some sleep pray God, we had damn all last night, everyone doing repairs till all hours..."

  2. 2
    To beleaguer; to besiege. obsolete

    "Looking up suddenly, I found mine eyes / Confronted with the minster's vast repose. / Silent and gray as forest-leaguered cliff / Left inland by the ocean's slow retreat, […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Dutch leger (“army”), itself derived from Proto-Germanic *legrą. Doublet of lair.

Etymology 2

From Dutch leger (“army”), itself derived from Proto-Germanic *legrą. Doublet of lair.

Etymology 3

From league + -er.

Etymology 4

Related to lager.

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