Ley
//leɪ// adj, name, noun
adj, name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Arable land used temporarily for hay or grazing.
- 2 Archaic form of lye. alt-of, archaic
- 3 Law. obsolete
- 4 a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock wordnet
- 5 A ley line.
"For a ley hunter, local people – particularly the elderly – can be mines of information. Devereux and Thomson recount how they asked a septuagenarian in a remote village the location of an elusive stone, without mentioning the subject of leys: […]"
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- 6 Alternative spelling of lea. alt-of, alternative
Adjective
- 1 Fallow; unseeded. not-comparable
- 2 Rotated to pasture instead of cropping. not-comparable
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
- 2 A commune of Moselle department, Lorraine, Grand Est, France.
Example
More examples"For a ley hunter, local people – particularly the elderly – can be mines of information. Devereux and Thomson recount how they asked a septuagenarian in a remote village the location of an elusive stone, without mentioning the subject of leys: […]"
Etymology
Etymology 1
See lea.
Etymology 2
From French Ley.
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