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View synonyms for leaguer
leaguer
1[ lee-ger ]
leaguer
2[ lee-ger ]
verb (used with object)
- to besiege.
noun
- a siege.
leaguer
1/ ˈliːɡə /
noun
- a member of a league
leaguer
2/ ˈliːɡə /
noun
- an encampment, esp of besiegers
- the siege itself
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of leaguer1
C16: from Dutch leger siege; related to lair 1
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Example Sentences
The Christians were through the leaguer, and entered Mawana without losing a man, and with their supply of cartridges intact.
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A dead silence soon reigned over that great host which lay in leaguer before Liege.
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But we cannot hold out with our few folk and scanty provender against the leaguer of thirty thousand.
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Rogers speaks of shipping while at Batavia "half a leaguer of Spelman's neep, or the best sort of arrack."
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I looked about for a place to stand upon, to speak unto the people, for they lay all up and down, like people at a leaguer.
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