leasern.1
/ˈliːzə/ Now dialect.
A gleaner.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > [noun] > gleaning > gleaner
leaser1340
gleanerc1440
gleaneress1611
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 86 Hi abideþ and wylneþ þane dyaþ ase deþ..þe lezere his haruest.
1534 Act 25 Hen. VIII, c. 1, Stat. Irel. (1678) 46 Every such gatherer, lezer or lezers.
1577 R. Stanyhurst Hist. Irelande iii. 85/2 in R. Holinshed Chron. I An Act agaynst leazers [1587 leasers] of corne.
1735 J. Swift Humble Addr. to Parl. in Wks. IV. 215 I knew there was no Office of any Kind, which a Man from England might not have..and..I looked upon all who had the Disadvantage of being born here, as only in the Condition of Leasers and Gleaners.
1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 242 You cannot proceed a quarter of a mile, without encountering some merry group of leasers.
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† leasern.2
Obsolete. rare.
A liar.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > a liar
liarc950
gabbera1325
fabler1362
wernard1362
leasing-mongerc1380
false sayera1382
leasing-maker1424
leasing-bearerc1440
contriver1477
drivelard1530
falsifier1532
lie-teller1552
Ananias1572
lick-dish1575
falsificator1609
fabulist1626
cracka1640
leaser1641
commentiter1645
prevaricator1650
cracker1652
bugiarda1670
rapper1758
pseudologist1804
Tom Pepper1818
wrinkler1819
lie-monger1830
untruther1889
tale-teller1894
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Matt., Pref. (Skeat) 17 Leaseres vel legeras, falsos.
1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. iii. 48 Hee..lays on us unmercifully, calling us Cavellers, Leasers, Slanderers.
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leasern.3
/ˈliːsə/, U.S. /ˈlisər/ One who takes on lease; a lessee.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > one who has tenure > [noun] > leaseholder or tenant
kindly tenanta1325
tenant1377
mailer1392
farmer1414
renter1444
takerc1450
fee-farmer1468
lessee1495
mail-man?a1500
tacksman1533
land-tenant1543
rentaller1553
fermerera1572
tenementer1574
mail-payer1597
inholdera1599
feu-farmer1609
leaseholder1858
leaser1877
1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 300 The mine has been in leasers' hands.
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n.11340
n.2c950
n.31877- to have a routine down pat
- to have a routine off pat
- to have a routine pat
- to have a run for one's money
- to have a run-in
- to have a run-in with
- to have a runin
- to have a runin with
- to have a saying to
- to have a scantling of
- to have a scent
- to have a screw
- to have a screw at
- to have a screw loose
- to have a see
- to have a serve of
- to have a set on
- to have a set on a person
- to have a share in
- to have a sheep's eye
- to have a shit
- to give faith to
- to give faith unto
- to give fidelity
- to give fifteen, etc, and a bisque