Lea vs Mews - What's the difference?
lea | mews |
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.
(British) An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
* 1922, , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 106
(falconry) A place where birds of prey are housed.
(mew)
As nouns the difference between lea and mews
is that lea is an open field, meadow while mews is an alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.As a proper noun Lea
is {{given name|female|from=Hebrew}}, latinized form of Leah.As a verb mews is
third-person singular of mew.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
* ----mews
English
(wikipedia mews)Etymology 1
From Mewes , the name of the royal stables at .Noun
(en-noun)- It was healthy and magnificient because one room, above a mews , somewhere near the river, contained fifty excited, talkative, friendly people.