Lea vs Lear - What's the difference?
lea | lear |
an open field, meadow
*XIX century , Alfred Tennyson,
*:Two children in two neighbor villages
*:Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas ;
Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards; a lay.
A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.
Something learned; a lesson.
Learning, lore; doctrine.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vii:
* 1898 , (Francis James Child) (editor), Lord William, or Lord Lundy , from ,
(transitive, archaic, and, Scotland) To teach.
(archaic) To learn.
* 14thC , (Geoffrey Chaucer), The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale , from ,
As verbs the difference between lea and lear
is that lea is to tie, bind while lear is (transitive|archaic|and|scotland) to teach.As a noun lear is
something learned; a lesson or lear can be .lea
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) legh, lege, lei "clearing, open ground" from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l), (l)Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
(etyl), from (etyl) lier, to bindNoun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----lear
English
Etymology 1
Noun
- when all other helpes she saw to faile, / She turnd her selfe backe to her wicked leares / And by her deuilish arts thought to preuaile [...].
- They dressed up in maids' array,
- And passd for sisters fair;
- With ae consent gaed ower the sea,
- For to seek after lear .
Etymology 2
See (lere)Verb
(en verb)- He hath take on him many a great emprise,
- Which were full hard for any that is here
- To bring about, but they of him it lear .