lea-rig

British  

/ ˈliːˌrɪɡ /

noun

1. a ridge of unploughed land

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Etymology

Origin of lea-rig

Old English lǣghrycg

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Example Sentences

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lea-rig

Altho’ the night were ne’er sae wild, And I were ne’er sae wearie, O, I’d meet thee on the lea-rig, My ain kind dearie O!

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

What brought you to Galloway, where the Celt sits on every hill-top, names every farm and lea-rig, and lights his Baal-fires about the standing stones on St. John’s Eve?”

From The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

There 's walth ower yon green lea-rig, My ain kind dearie, O!

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers

Will ye gang ower the lea-rig, My ain kind dearie, O?

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers

It is founded on an older ditty, beginning, "I'll rowe thee o'er the lea-rig."

From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers

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