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leaguer

noun

Etymology

From Dutch leger (“army”), itself derived from Proto-Germanic *legrą. Doublet of lair.

  1. derived from *legrą✻
  2. borrowed from leger

Definitions

  1. A siege.

    • We must break the leaguer of the city.

  2. The camp of a besieging army

    The camp of a besieging army; a camp in general.

    • Your sutler's wife in the leaguer, of two blanks

  3. To set up camp.

    • So we leaguer here, get some sleep pray God, we had damn all last night, everyone doing repairs till all hours...
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. To beleaguer

      To beleaguer; to besiege.

      • Looking up suddenly, I found mine eyes / Confronted with the minster's vast repose. / Silent and gray as forest-leaguered cliff / Left inland by the ocean's slow retreat, […]

    2. A person in a league

      • I'm not a major-leaguer; I just play baseball.

    3. A measure of liquid.

      • Excise duty had to be paid on each leaguer of brandy exported.
      • 5000 leaguers of rum went to Angola , for the purchase of slaves.

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Derived

leaguerer

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA