Definition of "lea"

lea¹

/liː/

noun
plural leas
1. An open field, meadow, pasture.
  Quotations
  The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
  1750, Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
  Two children in two neighbor villages / Playing mad pranks along the heathy leas;
  19th century, Alfred Tennyson, Circumstance

lea²

/liː/

noun
plural leas
1. Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards (275 m); for cotton, 120 yards (110 m).
2. A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.