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Leam

//liːm// name, noun, verb, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A river in England that rises in Northamptonshire, before flowing through Warwickshire and joining the Warwickshire Avon near Warwick.
  2. 2
    A hamlet in Grindleford parish, Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2379).
  3. 3
    Leamington Spa informal
Noun
  1. 1
    A gleam or flash of light; a glow or glowing. UK, dialectal

    "The Leams of the morning sun streamed through the half-closed shutters"

  2. 2
    A cord or strap for leading a dog.

    "The horsemen spreading themselves along the side of the cover, waited untill the keeper entered, leading his ban-dog; a large blood-hound tied in a leam or band, from which he takes his name."

Verb
  1. 1
    To gleam; shine; glow. UK, dialectal, intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English lemen, from Old English lȳman, from Proto-West Germanic *liuhmijan, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light, bright”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English leme, from Old English lēoma (“ray of light, beam, radiance, gleam, glare, lightning”), from Proto-Germanic *leuhmô (“light, shine”), from Proto-Indo-European *leuk- (“light, bright”). Cognate with Icelandic ljómi (“gleam, ray, beam, flash of light”), Latin lumen (“light”).

Etymology 3

See leamer, lien.

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