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LEAT

Definition: LEAT

LEAT

Noun

1. An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Leat \Leat\, noun. [Compare to Lead to conduct.]. (Websters 1913)



Specialty Definitions: LEAT

DomainDefinitions

Food & Agriculture

A conduit for conducting water. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. A mill stream used by small mines for power generation. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Leat

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A leat (occasionally and archaically spelt lete) is a name, particularly common in the south-west of England for a man-made watercourse, or a makeshift aqueduct.

The most famous examples are Drake's Leat, constructed on the instructions of Sir Francis Drake to conduct water from Dartmoor to Plymouth, and the Devonport Leat constructed in the late 18th century to carry water to the explanding naval dockyard at Devonport, now a part of Plymouth.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word is cognate with let in the sense of "allow to pass" (as in "passing water").

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Leat."

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Crosswords: LEAT

Non-English Usage: "LEAT" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Irish (with you), Romanian (recruit), Scottish (by you, in your possession, with you).

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Commercial Usage: LEAT

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: LEAT

"LEAT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "LEAT" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%1785,106

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: LEAT

Language Translations for "LEAT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

canal d'amenée (lead). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fejőkehely (leat cup). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eatlay

   

Scottish

  

tabhairt (bringing : a' tabhairt leat e, taking). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

máng dẫn nước ra cối xay. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: LEAT

Derivations

Words beginning with "LEAT": leather, leatherback, leatherbacks, leathered, leatherette, leatherettes, leathering, leatherleaf, leatherleaves, leatherlike, leathern, leatherneck, leathernecks, leathers, leatherwood, leatherwoods, leathery. (additional references)

Words ending with "LEAT": bleat, cleat, compleat, outbleat, pleat. (additional references)

Words containing "LEAT": aculeate, aleatoric, aleatory, binucleate, binucleated, bleated, bleater, bleaters, bleating, bleats, cleated, cleating, cleats, enucleate, enucleated, enucleates, enucleating, enucleation, enucleations, galeate, galeated, linoleate, linoleates, maleate, maleates, mononucleate, mononucleated, multinucleate, multinucleated, nonnucleated, nucleate, nucleated, nucleates, nucleating, nucleation, nucleations, nucleator, nucleators, oleate, oleates, outbleated, outbleating, outbleats, pileate, pileated, pleated, pleater, pleaters, pleating, pleatless, pleats, uninucleate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "LEAT"

Words ending with "eat": Pleat, teat. (additional references)

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Anagrams: LEAT

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: late, tael, tale, teal, tela.

Words within the letters "a-e-l-t"

-1 letter: ale, alt, ate, eat, eta, lat, lea, let, tae, tea, tel.

-2 letters: ae, al, at, el, et, la, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-l-t"
 

+1 letter: aglet, alate, alert, alter, artel, blate, bleat, cleat, dealt, delta, eclat, elate, exalt, fetal, lated, laten, later, latex, lathe, latke, latte, leant, leapt, least, lepta, lutea, metal, palet, petal, plate, pleat, ratel, setal, slate, stale, steal, stela, table, taels, taler, tales, teals, telae, telia, tepal, tesla, valet.

 

+2 letters: ablate, ablest, acetal, acetyl, aglets, aiglet, alated, alates, albeit, albite, alerts, alters, althea, amulet, anklet, antler, aplite, armlet, artels, atelic, auklet, ballet, battle, bleats, boatel, cablet, callet, camlet, cantle, caplet, cartel, castle, cattle, cental, chalet, claret, cleats, daleth, dartle, delate, deltas, dental, desalt, detail, dilate, eaglet, eclats, elated, elater, elates, eluant, eluate, elytra, entail, estral, etalon, exalts, falter, fealty, featly, festal, fetial, foetal, folate, gallet, gelant, gelate, gelati, gelato, halest, halite, halted, halter, hamlet, hantle, haslet, health, hyetal, labret, lament, lamest, lanate, lancet, lappet, lasted, laster, lateen, lately, latens, latent, latest, lathed, lather, lathes, latkes, latten, latter, lattes, laxest, lealty, learnt, leasts, legate, legato, lethal, levant, ligate, loathe, lobate, locate, lunate, luteal, luxate, lyrate, lysate, lyttae, malate, mallet, malted, mantel, mantle, meatal, mental, metals, muleta, neatly, oblate, oleate, osteal, palate, palest, palets, pallet, palter, pastel, pelota, petals, placet, planet, plated, platen, plater, plates, pleats, ratels, rattle, realty, rectal, relate, rental, retail, retial, retral, sallet, salted, salter, saltie, salute, samlet, septal, shelta, slated, slater, slates, slatey, solate, stable, staled, staler, stales, staple, steals, stelae, stelai, stelar, stella, tabled, tables, tablet, tackle, tailed, tailer, taille, talced, talent, talers, talked, talker, talkie, taller, tamale, tamely, tangle, tassel, tattle, teasel, teazel, teazle, tectal, telega, telial, tenail, tepals, tergal, teslas, thaler, thecal, thenal, tineal, tolane, tramel, travel, valets, varlet, velate, vestal, wallet, wattle, wealth, zealot.

 

+3 letters: abettal, ablated, ablates, abluent, abluted, acetals, acetyls, acolyte, actable, acutely, acylate, adeptly, adulate, aiglets, ailment, albites, alerted, alerter, alertly, aliment, alkanet, aloetic, altered, alterer, althaea, altheas, alunite, amplest, amulets, anethol, anklets, annulet, anolyte, antlers, antlike, apetaly, aplenty, aplites, apostle, apteral, armlets, article, artless, astilbe, atelier, athlete, atingle, atlases, auklets, auldest, baldest, ballets, ballute, bastile, batlike, battled, battler, battles, beastly, belated, beleapt, beltway, benthal, bestial, bimetal, bitable, blanket, blasted, blaster, blastie, blather, blatted, blatter, bleated, bleater, bloated, bloater, boatels, brattle, bullate, cablets, calcite, callets, calmest, calotte, calumet, camlets, cantles, capelet, caplets, cartels, castled, castles, catlike, celesta, centals, central, chaetal, chalets, chaplet, chattel, chelate, cholate, ciliate, citable, citadel, clarets, clatter, clavate, cleated, climate, collate, crestal, daleths, dartled, dartles, datable, datedly, dealate, deathly, default, deflate, delated, delates, delator, deltaic, dentals, desalts, details, dextral, dialect, dilated, dilater, dilates, eaglets, earthly, eatable, ectypal, edictal, egalite, elastic, elastin, elaters, elating, elation, elative, elegant, elevate, eluants, eluates, emulate, entails, enteral, enthral, epaulet, estival, estrual, etalons, eternal, ethanol, ethical, exactly, exalted, exalter, explant, falcate, falsest, falters, fateful, fatless, fatlike, faulted, fellate, fetials, filiate, flasket, flatbed, flatlet, flatted, flatten, flatter, fleapit, floated, floatel, floater, flotage, folates, foliate, galatea, galeate, gallate, galleta, gallets, gantlet, gelants, gelated, gelates, gelatin, gelatos, gellant, genital, gestalt, getable, glaiket, gloated, gloater, globate, gluteal, greatly, halbert, halites, haltere, halters, hamlets, hantles, haplite, harslet, haslets, hatable, hatchel, hateful, hatless, hatlike, healths, healthy, heeltap, heliast, hellcat, hematal, hyalite, inflate, irately, isolate, kantele, keitloa, labiate, labrets, laciest, lactase, lactate, lacteal, lactean, lactone, lactose, laities, lakiest, lambent, lambert, laments, lamster, lanated, lancets, languet, lankest, lantern, lappets, largest, lasters, latched, latches, latchet, lateens, latency, latened, latents, laterad, lateral, latests, latexes, lathers, lathery, lathier, latices, latrine, lattens, lattice, layette, lazaret, laziest, leaflet, leanest, leather, legated, legatee, legates, legator, legatos, lemmata, leotard, lethals, lethean, levants, levator, librate, ligated, ligates, limbate, lineate, liquate, literal, loathed, loather, loathes, lobated, located, locater, locates, lomenta, lunated, luxated, luxates, lyrated, lysates, malates, maleate, mallets, maltase, malteds, maltier, maltose, mantels, mantled, mantles, mantlet, marlite, martlet, matelot, matless, meatily, meltage, metaled, metical, muletas, mutable, nailset, neutral, notable, oatlike, oatmeal, oblates, oleates, omental, outleap, ovately, ovulate, oxalate, palates, paletot, palette, paliest, pallets, palmate, palpate, palters, pantile, partlet, pastels, patella, peartly, pelotas, peltast, peltate, penalty, persalt, petaled, petrale, peytral, pileate, placate, placets, placket, plaited, plaiter, planate, planets, planted, planter, plaster, platane, plateau, platens, platers, platier, platies, platted, platter, playlet, pleated, pleater, plectra, plicate, plumate, polecat, polenta, potable, prattle, prelate, prolate, psalter, pteryla, pulsate, quetzal, ratable, rathole, ratlike, ratline, rattled, rattler, rattles, realest, realist, reality, reallot, realter, realtor, recital, redtail, reflate, refloat, refutal, related, relater, relates, relator, reliant, rentals, replant, replate, reslate, retable, retails, retinal, retrial, salient, sallets, saltern, salters, saltest, saltier, salties, saltine, saltire, saluted, saluter, salutes, samlets, satchel, scarlet, sealant, segetal, sheltas, skatole, slainte, slanted, slaters, slather, slatier, slatted, solated, solates, solvate, spatzle, stabile, stabled, stabler, stables, staddle, stalely, stalest, stalked, stalker, stalled, stammel, stapled, stapler, staples, starlet, startle, stately, stealer, stealth, stellar, stellas, sternal, stylate, sublate, sulcate, sulfate, tableau, tablets, tackled, tackler, tackles, tactile, tadpole, taglike, tailers, tailles, takable, talcked, talcose, talents, taliped, talipes, talkers, talkier, talkies, tallage, tallest, tallied, tallier, tallies, taloned, taluses, tamable, tamales, tangelo, tangled, tangler, tangles, tapetal, taphole, tartlet, tassels, tattled, tattler, tattles, taxable, taxless, teabowl, tealike, tearful, tearily, teasels, teazels, teazled, teazles, tegular, telamon, telegas, teleman, teleran, templar, tenable, tenably, tenails, tequila, tertial, tetanal, textual, thalers, thermal, tillage, timbale, toenail, tolanes, tollage, toluate, torulae, totable, totaled, trachle, trailed, trailer, tramell, tramels, trammel, trample, travels, trawled, trawler, trawley, treacle, treacly, treadle, trehala, trenail, triable, tunable, tutelar, twaddle, twangle, twattle, typable, ululate, upleapt, uralite, valeted, vallate, valuate, valvate, varlets, vaulted, vaulter, vegetal, ventail, ventral, vestals, vestral, vilayet, violate, volante, voltage, volvate, votable, vulgate, vulvate, wallets, waltzed, waltzer, waltzes, warstle, wastrel, wattled, wattles, wavelet, wealths, wealthy, wetland, wrastle, zealots.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: LEAT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 45 41 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-..    .    .-    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01000101 01000001 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#69 &#65 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0045 0041 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

46393554

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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