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Leaden vs Leade - What's the difference?

leaden | leade |

As an adjective leaden

is made of lead.

As a noun leade is

that portion of a firearm's barrel immediately in front of the chamber where the bullet travels prior to contacting the rifling.

leaden

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (dated) Made of lead.
  • Pertaining to or resembling lead; heavy, grey, sluggish.
  • * Ode to a Nightingale , John Keats
    • "Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs, Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow."
  • Dull; darkened with overcast.
    • the sky was leaden and thick
  • * 1999: Stardust , Neil Gaiman, page 31 (2001 Perennial paperback edition)
    • "It was at the end of February..., when the world was cold..., when icy rains fell from the leaden skies in continual drizzling showers."

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    leade

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • That portion of a firearm's barrel immediately in front of the chamber where the bullet travels prior to contacting the rifling.
  • * 2004 , Tom A. Warlow, Firearms, The Law And Forensic Ballistics , page 117
    • The bullet must then jump some distance before it enters the leade of the rifling in the barrel. There is always some tendency for skidding to occur before the rifling fully engages [....]

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