lea

(liː) n1. (Agriculture) poetic a meadow or field2. (Agriculture) land that has been sown with grass seed[Old English lēah; related to German dialect loh thicket]

lea

(liː) n1. (Units) a unit for measuring lengths of yarn, usually taken as 80 yards for wool, 120 yards for cotton and silk, and 300 yards for linen2. (Units) a measure of yarn expressed as the length per unit weight, usually the number of leas per pound[C14: of uncertain origin]

LEA

(in Britain) abbreviation for (Education) Local Education Authority

lea

(li, leɪ)

n. grassland; meadow. [before 900; Middle English lege, lei, Old English lēah, c. dial. Dutch loo (as in Waterloo), Old High German lōh, Latin lūcus]

lea.

1. league. 2. leather.

Lea

a measure of yarn which varies according to type, i.e., worsted [80 yards] or cotton [120 yards], 1399.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	lea - a unit of length of thread or yarnlinear measure, linear unit - a unit of measurement of lengthyard, pace - a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride
	2.	lea - a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestockgrazing land, ley, pasture, pasturelandcommon land, commons - a pasture subject to common usecow pasture - a pasture for cowsgrassland - land where grass or grasslike vegetation grows and is the dominant form of plant liferural area, country - an area outside of cities and towns; "his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country"

Translations

lea

1. a unit for measuring lengths of yarn, usually taken as 80 yards for wool, 120 yards for cotton and silk, and 300 yards for linen 2. a measure of yarn expressed as the length per unit weight, usually the number of leas per pound

Lea

a length or small skein of yarn used for determining the yarn’s thickness, tensile strength, and other properties. In the USSR a lea is usually 100 m long.

LEA

Acronym	Definition
LEA➣Local Education Agency
LEA➣Local Education Authority (UK)
LEA➣League
LEA➣Liga de Los Estados Arabes (Spanish: League of Arab States)
LEA➣Law Enforcement Agency
LEA➣Law Enforcement Administration (college courses)
LEA➣Local Enforcement Agency
LEA➣Low Energy Architecture
LEA➣Left Edge Algorithm
LEA➣Log Export Api
LEA➣Late Embryogenesis Abundant (protein)
LEA➣Langues Étrangères Appliquées (France)
LEA➣Local Electoral Act (New Zealand)
LEA➣Language Experience Approach (reading instruction approach)
LEA➣Lateral Entorhinal Area
LEA➣Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc (academic publisher)
LEA➣Life Expectancy Age
LEA➣Lutheran Education Australia
LEA➣Lower Extremity Amputation
LEA➣Load Effective Address
LEA➣Lutheran Education Association (Forest, IL)
LEA➣Licensure Examination for Agriculturists (Philippines)
LEA➣Law Enforcement Activity
LEA➣Loss Executives Association
LEA➣Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée
LEA➣Learmonth, Western Australia, Australia (Airport Code)
LEA➣Local Environment Agency
LEA➣Logistics Engineering Analysis
LEA➣Light Enforcement Aircraft
LEA➣Leadership Equity Association (Germany)
LEA➣Loin Eye Area (meat-producing animals)
LEA➣License-Exempt Alliance
LEA➣Longman Essential Activator
LEA➣Local Employment Initiatives (UK)
LEA➣Logistics Evaluation Agency (US Army)
LEA➣Littleton Education Association
LEA➣Limited Exclusion Area
LEA➣Long Endurance Aircraft
LEA➣Local Enterprise Agency Ltd.
LEA➣Launcher Electronic Assembly
LEA➣Laboratoire d'Essais Analytiques (French: Analytical Testing Laboratory)
LEA➣Life Threatening Episodes of Asthma
LEA➣Lower Enclosure Assembly
LEA➣Linear Explosive Array
LEA➣Locally Equivalent Alternatives
LEA➣Law Enforcement Availability System
LEA➣Laptop Encryption Administrator
LEA➣Launch Enable Alarm

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noun a unit of length of thread or yarn

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noun a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock

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