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Ley

//leɪ// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Fallow; unseeded. not-comparable
  2. 2
    Rotated to pasture instead of cropping. not-comparable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A commune of Moselle department, Lorraine, Grand Est, France.
Noun
  1. 1
    Arable land used temporarily for hay or grazing.
  2. 2
    Archaic form of lye. alt-of, archaic
  3. 3
    Law. obsolete
  4. 4
    a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock wordnet
  5. 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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  1. 6
    Alternative spelling of lea. alt-of, alternative

Etymology

Etymology 1

See lea.

Etymology 2

See lea.

Etymology 3

From French Ley.

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