leat
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of leat
Old English -gelǣt (as in wætergelǣt water channel), from let 1
Example Sentences
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At leat 101,000 cusomters in Louisiana were without power by early Saturday afternoon.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2019
"Latha math leat" I gasped, and caught my breath again as the fingers closed softly on my jaw, "O Alan mhic Neill!"
From The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
We might calculate on a month or six weeks in getting up the fort, making the leat and water-wheel, putting up the machinery, and laying down the flumes.
From In the Heart of the Rockies by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
He had been showing his guests how superbly he could jump the leat, and had fallen into it.
From The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition by Charles Turley
Leat is a Devonshire term for a running stream, and a branch of the leat ran through the Oatlands garden while there was another branch, more venturesome, at the bottom of the fields.
From The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition by Charles Turley
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