ley
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/leɪ/
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/leɪ/ · /liː/
Definition of ley
9 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- Arable land used temporarily for hay or grazing.
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noun
- Arable land used temporarily for hay or grazing.
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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: […]”
- (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of lea.
- (alt-of, archaic)Archaic form of lye.
- (obsolete)Law.
adj
- (not-comparable)Fallow; unseeded.
- (not-comparable)Rotated to pasture instead of cropping.
name
- A surname.
- A commune of Moselle department, Lorraine, Grand Est, France.
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Etymology
See lea.
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