Lee vs Leed - What's the difference?
lee | leed |
(sailing) A protected cove or harbor, out of the wind.
(sailing) The side of the ship away from the wind.
A sheltered place, especially a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection.
* Morte d'Arthure
* Tyndall
Language; tongue.
A national tongue (in contrast to a foreign language).
The speech of a person or class of persons; form of speech; talk; utterance; manner of speaking or writing; phraseology; diction.
A strain in a rhyme, song, or poem; refrain; flow.
A constant or repeated line or verse; theme.
Patter; rigmarole.
As a proper noun lee
is for someone who lived near a meadow (the anglo-saxon for meadow being ley or leag).As a noun leed is
sorrow, grief, woe.lee
English
Noun
(en noun)- the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship
- We lurked under lee .
- Desiring me to take shelter in his lee .