Definition of "leas" []

• Plural form of lea. (noun)

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• "DORA: A boy I know; Dan his name is -- 'leas' 'e's not a gentleman."
• "Tha'z astonizhing that _anybody_ could do that, an 'leas' of all "[confronting Chester]" the daughter of a papa an 'gran'papa with such a drama-tique bio-graphie!"
• "There were sedges and rushes, too, in the bogs, and coarse grass on the forest pastures -- or "leas" as we call them to this day round here -- but no real green fields; and, I suspect, very few gay flowers, save in spring the sheets of golden gorse, and in summer the purple heather."