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Leat. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1903, rev. 2024. Leat Chiefly s. w. dial. Also 6 leate, 7 let(t, 9 leet. [OE. (wæter)-ʓelǽt(e water-conduit (the simple word occurs also in the sense ‘junction of roads’) = OHG. gilâȥ letting, letting out, junction, also in comb. waȥȥer gilâȥ water-conduit (MHG. gelâȥ, mod.G. gelasz, also MHG. gelæȥe, mod.G. geläsze, in many senses derived from that of the verbal root); f. ʓe- prefix (see Y-) + root of lǽtan LET v.1] An open watercourse to conduct water for household purposes, mills, mining works, etc.

1 1590–1.  in Trans. Devon. Assoc. (1884), XVI. 526. Item pd to 4 trumpetors that were att the leate by Mr Maiors commaundemt, vs.

2 a. 1642.  Sir W. Monson, Naval Tracts, iv. (1704), 432/1. Streight, River, or other Let of Water, fresh or salt.

3 1671.  Phil. Trans., VI. 2098. Cut a Leat, Gurt, or Trench.

4 1671.  F. Philipps, Reg. Necess., 235. Commissioners of Sewers to survey Streams, Gutters, Letts, and Annoyances.

5 1796.  W. Marshall, W. England, II. 269. Rode to the head of Plymouth Leat. This artificial brook is taken out of the river Mew, towards its source.

6 1813.  Vancouver, Agric. Devon, 319. The entrance for the leat was cut at about thirty feet above the lip of the weir.

7 1838.  Mrs. Bray, Tradit. Devonsh., I. 232, note. Leet is used in Devonshire to signify a stream of water.

8 1855.  Kingsley, Westw. Ho! xvi. I have a project to bring down a leat of fair water from the hill-tops right into Plymouth town.

9 1881.  Daily News, 21 Jan., 6/4. The leats on Dartmoor are choked with snow and ice, and no water is flowing into the reservoirs.

10   attrib.  1882.  Burton & Cameron, Gold Coast for G., I. iii. 57. The water-course or leat-road of Santa Luzia.

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