leat

British  

/ liːt /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of leat

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

Example Sentences

At leat 101,000 cusomters in Louisiana were without power by early Saturday afternoon.

From Slate • Jul. 13, 2019

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 Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

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 Turley, Charles

All had to be ready at any moment to leap from the tree and join issue with the enemy on the leat.

From The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition by Turley, Charles

River and leat and back-water here ran clear among willow-clad islands, all fringed deep with meadow-sweet and comfrey and butterbur and melilot.

From At Large by Benson, Arthur Christopher