ley

Fallow; unseeded.

Adjective

  1. Fallow; unseeded.
  2. Rotated to pasture instead of cropping.

Origin

See lea.

Noun agriculture, business

  1. Arable land used temporarily for hay or grazing.
  2. A ley line.
    • For a ley hunter, local people – particularly the elderly – can be mines of information. Devereux and Thomson recount how they asked a septuagenarian in a remote village the location of an elusive stone, without...
  3. Alternative spelling of lea.

Forms

leys

Derived

Blackbird Leys

Noun alt of, archaic

  1. Archaic form of lye.

Noun obsolete

  1. Law.

Related

peso ley