Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

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  • Lǽ wíffex

    cæsaries,

    • Wrt. Voc. ii. 16, 46.
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    lee of threde,

    • Prompt. Parv. 291
    , where the following note is given. 'Forty threads of hemp-yarn are termed in Norfolk a lea. The "lea" by which linen yarn was estimated at Kidderminster, contained 200 threads.' Halliwell gives as a northern word 'lea
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[
Icel. hair
:
cf. , lóð shagginess; also a flock of wool.
]
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  • lǽ, n.