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leod en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of lede (“person, people”).
   alt of lede
   • Therefore have I no lykinge with tho leods to wonne. 1794, Joseph Ritson, The English Anthology. - Volume 3, page 43:
   • If any of the leod were obstructed in their attendance on the king, a heavy penalty was incurred. 1875, Proceedings of the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, page 323:
   • In a world in which virtually everyone was a farmer, farming was not an 'occupation': the early medieval leod who, on the one hand, was in military service to the king, could also have fields to till. 2002, Helena Hamerow, “The Forces of Production: Crop and Animal Husbandry”, in Early Medieval Settlements:

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