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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun ley has 1 sense
- ley(n = noun.location) grazing land, lea, pasture, pastureland - a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock; Array has particulars: common land, commons, cow pasture
is a kind of grassland
is a part of country, rural area
CIDE DICTIONARY
ley, v. t. & i.
To lay; to wager. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
ley, n. [OF.].
Law. Abbott. [1913 Webster]
ley, n.
See Lye. [1913 Webster]
ley, n.
Grass or meadow land; a lea. [1913 Webster]
ley, a.
Fallow; unseeded. Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
ley, n. a field temporarily under grass.
Idiom
ley farming alternate growing of crops and grass.
ley, n. the supposed straight line of a prehistoric track, usu. between hilltops.
Etymology
var. of LEA
ROGET THESAURUS
ley
Plain
N plain, table-land, face of the country, open country, champaign country, basin, downs, waste, weary waste, desert, wild, steppe, pampas, savanna, prairie, heath, common, wold, veldt, moor, moorland, bush, plateau, campagna, alkali flat, llano, mesa, mesilla, playa, shaking prairie, trembling prairie, vega, meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather, lea, ley, lay, grounds, maidan, agostadero, champaign, alluvial, campestral, campestrial, campestrian, campestrine.
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