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Lea

noun

A unit of length of thread or yarn.

A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock. Synonyms: grazing land, ley, pasture, pastureland.

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"Lea" Quotes from Famous Books

... tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and ...

— The Principles of English Versification • Paull Franklin Baum

... California about 1880 by the late Isaac Lea, of Florin, Sacramento county. Mr. Lea grew a considerable amount of licorice roots and gave much effort to finding a market for it. He found that the local consumption of licorice root was too small to warrant growing it as a crop; that the high price of labor in digging the roots, and ...

— One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered • E.J. Wickson

... lover's loving care—John Bull His look is the welcome of a neighbour; His hand is the offer of a friend; His word is the liberty of labour; His blow the beginning of the end. Then here's to the Lord of the Island; Highland and lowland and lea; And here's to the team—be it horse, be it steam— He drives from the sea to the sea, Here's to his nod for the stranger; Here's to his grip for a friend; And here's to the hand, on the sea, or the land, Ever ready the right ...

— Successful Recitations • Various

... LEA. To betray me after that fashion! A rascal who for so many reasons should be the first to keep secret what I trust him with! To go and tell everything to my father! Ah! I swear by all that is dear to me not to ...

— The Impostures of Scapin • Moliere (Poquelin)

... night after leaving lea we had ample proof of their desperate straits. We had left the sandy deserts behind, and were toiling along painfully, sustained only by Castro's assurance that he knew of a ...

— At the Point of the Sword • Herbert Hayens

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