Definition of "leder" [leder]

• See lither.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Under Thomson, though, the leder is shrinking and clearly endangered."
• "Those in the newsroom bemoan the slow disappearance of perhaps the newspaper's most revered contribution to journalism — the page-one "leder," the long explanatory pieces on either the left or right side of the pre-Murdoch Journal."
• "Moreover, introducing a two-column breaking-news story posed its own problems on a page that's been defined for so long by its "leder" stories in columns 1 and 6, and it's "A-hed" feature in the center of the page."