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ley en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /leɪ/ sense 2
  • /liː/ all senses

Etymology

See lea.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Fallow; unseeded.
  2. (not-comparable) Rotated to pasture instead of cropping.

Translations (3)

hu ugaron hagyott (fallow; unseeded) · hu vetetlen (fallow; unseeded) · hu ugarnak hagyott (fallow; unseeded)

ley en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /leɪ/ sense 2
  • /liː/ all senses

Etymology

See lea.

Meanings

  1. Arable land used temporarily for hay or grazing.
  2. 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: […] 2010, Philip Carr-Gomm, Richard Heygate, The Book of English Magic:
  3. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of lea.
    alt of lea

Forms

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Deriveds

Blackbird Leys

Translations (3)

hu legelő (arable land used temporarily for hay or grazing) · hu kaszáló (arable land used temporarily for hay or grazing) · hu ugar (arable land used temporarily for hay or grazing)

Source: en.wiktionary, “ley” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

ley en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /leɪ/ sense 2
  • /liː/ all senses

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, archaic) Archaic form of lye.
    alt of lye
Source: en.wiktionary, “ley” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

ley en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • /leɪ/ sense 2
  • /liː/ all senses

Meanings

  1. (obsolete) Law.

Relateds

peso ley