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Noun: lea  lee
  1. A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
    "the richness of the mines and lea land";
    - pasture, pastureland, pasture land, grazing land, ley, grazing
     
  2. A unit of length of thread or yarn
    "The weaver needed several leas of wool for the project"

Sounds like: lea, li, Lee, L

Derived forms: leas

Type of: grassland, linear measure, linear unit

Part of: country, rural area

Encyclopedia: Lea, Lincolnshire