Definitions
a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
Word origin
From Middle English legh, lege, lei (“clearing, open ground”), from Old English lēah (“clearing in a forest”) from Proto-West Germanic *lauh (“meadow”), from Proto-Germanic *lauhaz (“meadow”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos (“field, meadow”).
Used in a sentence
“The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.”
“19th century, Alfred Tennyson, Circumstance Two children in two neighbor villages Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas;”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Meadow”3 letters
02“grassland”3 letters
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