leat

/ liːt /

noun

1. a trench or ditch that conveys water to a mill wheel

Word History and Origins

Origin of leat¹

Old English -gelǣt (as in wætergelǣt water channel), from let ¹

Example Sentences

But at the rate they are devouring their green stuff there will not be a leat, scarcely a stem left in another hour; and then?

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We felt more than repaid for our impulsive interest, and as we disappeared from sight a last 'Bannact dea leat!'

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For nearly twelve hours a gang of men dug at the drift, and succeeded in freeing the leat and saving the town from a water famine.

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Much of the snow that had been removed from the leat had drifted back, and part of the work had to be done over again.

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The whole leat from the Head Weir to Roborough was found to be one mass of frozen snow.

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