Lexicographical Neighbors of Leaze
Literary usage of Leaze
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"... from my fértil leaze; The finest of that kind, compared with my wheat, For
fineness of the bread, doth look like common cheat. Drayt. Poli/olb.. xvi, p. ..."
2. A History of the Forest Or Chace, Known by the Name of Cranborn Chace by William WEST (1816)
"L the barons decreed that Dean's leaze, Witchampton park, and Sley yates, were
parcel of Chittered walk, and that this was one of the walks of the chace; ..."
3. Boyer's French Dictionary: Comprising All the Additions and Improvements of by Abel Boyer, William Bentley Fowle (1835)
"'HARCELER, bars-la, va to lire or harass; to leaze, provoke or vex ; annoy 'HARDE,
hard, sf herd of fallow-deer, ..."
4. A Complete System of Pleading: Comprehending the Most Approved Precedents by John Wentworth, George Townesend, James Cornwall (1798)
"... the common by that the faid place in which, &c. called the Higher Monkey Leaze,
a fence and at the faid time when, &c. lay, and from time whereof the ..."
5. Abstracts of Wiltshire Inquisitiones Post Mortem Returned Into the Court of by Ethel Stokes (1901)
"... one close of arable land or pasture, lately enclosed, called the olde leaze
piece, containing about 16 acres; 93 acres and 3 ..."
6. Publications by English Dialect Society (1893)
"sometimes used with a prefix, as Cow- leaze, Ox-leaze. ... Legh, Lease (Aubrey);
Leaze (Amateur Poacher, ch. iii).— N. & SW Lease. To glean (AS). ..."
7. Report of the Annual Meeting (1908)
"Those forming the Stripple and Trippet Stones and the Leaze Circle are for the
most part solid and well cut, with quadrangular cross-section. ..."
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