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leaguer en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From Dutch leger (“army”), itself derived from Proto-Germanic *legrą. Doublet of lair.

Meanings

1. A siege.
   • We must break the leaguer of the city.
2. The camp of a besieging army; a camp in general.
   • Your sutler's wife in the leaguer, of two blanks 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass:

Forms

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leaguers	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Relateds

beleaguered

leaguer en · VERB · etymology 1

Etymology

From Dutch leger (“army”), itself derived from Proto-Germanic *legrą. Doublet of lair.

Meanings

1. To set up camp.
   • So we leaguer here, get some sleep pray God, we had damn all last night, everyone doing repairs till all hours... 1987, Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger:
2. (obsolete) To beleaguer; to besiege.
   • Looking up suddenly, I found mine eyes / Confronted with the minster's vast repose. / Silent and gray as forest-leaguered cliff / Left inland by the ocean's slow retreat, […] 1869 December (indicated as 1870 January), James Russell Lowell, “The Cathedral”, in James Thomas Fields, editor, The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XXV, number CXLVII, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5:

Forms

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leaguering	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
leaguers	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic
leaguered	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
leaguered	Tense=Past		lexicographic

Deriveds

leaguerer

leaguer en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

Etymology tree English league Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English leaguer From league + -er.

Meanings

1. (in-compounds, usually) A person in a league.
   • I'm not a major-leaguer; I just play baseball.

Forms

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leaguers	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Relateds

major-leaguer · Texas leaguer · non-leaguer · beer leaguer · Little Leaguer

leaguer en · NOUN · etymology 3

Etymology

Related to lager.

Meanings

1. A measure of liquid.
   • 5000 leaguers of rum went to Angola , for the purchase of slaves. 1819, The Glasgow Geography, page 41:
   • Excise duty had to be paid on each leaguer of brandy exported. 1794, Cape of Good Hope:

Forms

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leaguers	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Translations (1)

af lêer (measure of liquid)