lea

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an open grassy field, meadow, or pasture; chiefly literary

   Cattle grazed quietly on the lea beside the river.

From Middle English legh, lege, or lei, from Old English leah, 'woodland clearing, meadow, or pasture,' and ultimately Proto-Germanic *lauhaz. The same element survives in many English place-names ending in -ley or -leigh.

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