Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A meeting of cross-roads.
- noun A watercourse or a trench for conveying water to engine- or mill-wheels.
- noun See the quotations.
- To leak; pour.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an
artificial watercourse ,canal oraqueduct , but especially amillrace
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Examples
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This "leat" was left incomplete, the terminus being three miles from St. Paul's; the Governor-General
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Go hifreann leat, Obama, go dtachta an diabhal tu!
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Go hifreann leat, Obama, go dtachta an diabhal tu!
CT VFW lays into Blumenthal for fake military claims. | RedState 2010
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Always give them at leat five layers of the “so what” analysis, until you dissect them into quivering jello-like cubes.
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Go hifreann leat, Obama, go dtachta an diabhal tu!
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Many people may not like it but at leat 2000 people will be working.
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The Republican Party is not in the leat bit interested in governing, only in ruling.
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Go hifreann leat, Obama, go dtachta an diabhal tu!
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At leat I like to think that's why he took the time to invite me to breakfast and share his thoughts, as he a did for a lot of us over the years.
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Go hifreann leat, Obama, go dtachta an diabhal tu!
CT VFW lays into Blumenthal for fake military claims. | RedState 2010
knitandpurl commented on the word leat
"I was curious about the watermills. The locals spoke of these mills as they might have referred to old mine workings or to the quicksands of tidal flats, to ice-covered ponds or the craters of rumbling volcanoes; I sensed it might pay this visiting canoeist to understand the local view if only because watermills meant no more to me than innocuous echoes of a pre-industrial past, a stock feature of picturesque period landscapes, high wheels turning harmlessly within the barred confines of their leats."
Meander: From East to West, Indirectly, Along a Turkish River by Jeremy Seal, p 135 of the Bloomsbury USA hardcover edition
August 28, 2012