leaguern.1
/ˈliːɡə/, U.S. /ˈliɡər/ 1.
a. A military camp, esp. one engaged in a siege; an investing force.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > group with special function or duty > [noun] > for siege or blockade
leaguer1577
blockade1821
society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > [noun] > encamping > camp > siege camp
leaguer1577
1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 212/2 in Chron. I But when it was perceiued that theyr slender ranckes were not able to resiste the thycke leghers of the enimies.
1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 2 They [military men] will not vouchsafe..to use our antient termes belonging to matters of warre, but doo call a Campe by the Dutch name of Legar.
a1645 D. Featley tr. I. Wake in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus (1651) 494 The leaguer is not yet broken up.
1650 T. Bayly Worcesters Apophthegmes 100 When General Fairfax came into the Leaguer before Raglan.
1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vii. 265 It would not at first be credited at the Leaguer, that the Earl of Essex could be in a condition to attempt such a work.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 127 I came into the Imperial Leager at the Siege of Leipsick.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. i. 12 He temporised until the enemy had broken up their leaguer.
1827 J. Keble Christian Year II. lii. 7 The holy house is still beset With leaguer of stern foes.
1865 F. Parkman Huguenots ii, in Pioneers of France in New World 20 Villegagnon with six followers..passed under cover of night through the infidel leaguer.
1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xiv. 17 He had dispersed the leaguer at Lincoln.
b. in leaguer: in camp; engaged in a siege.
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society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [adverb]
in leaguer1590
1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. G2v Our men of Barbary haue..laine in leagre fifteene moneths and more.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. 446 Anniball now laie in leaguer, before the walls of Gerion.
1675 H. Neville tr. N. Machiavelli Prince xii, in tr. N. Machiavelli Wks. 216 They were in Leaguer before a Town.
1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. i. 316 Where England's King in leaguer lay.
1879 S. H. Butcher & A. Lang tr. Homer Odyssey 39 Now we sat in leaguer there achieving many adventures.
2. A military investment, siege.
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society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [noun] > a siege
assiege1469
leaguer1601
setting-downa1616
obsess1694
wall-fight1850
1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor ii. iii. sig. E4 It was the first, but the best leaugre that euer I beheld with these eyes. View more context for this quotation
1630 J. Taylor Praise, Antiqvitie, & Commoditie of Beggerie in Wks. i. 100/1 Two dangerous hurts hardly brought off from Bummill Leaguer.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. 72 At the time of a Leagure he must expect often to change his Powder.
1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost I. ii. vi. 81 The Waste which lay between the Houses in a Time of a Leaguer, was sown with Corn.
1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic II. iii. ix. 487 During the infinite horrors of the Harlem siege, and in the more prosperous leaguer of Alkmaar.
1859 S. Smiles Self-help (1860) vii. 175 The leaguer of Lucknow.
1890 Athenæum 13 Dec. 811/1 The long leaguer of Miletus in the Ionic revolt.
3. This word has occasionally been substituted by confusion for leager, ledger n. and adj., in attributive use and in the phrase to lie leaguer.
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1678 H. Vaughan Thalia Rediviva 50 Angels descend, and rule the sphere: Where heav'n lyes Leiguer.
1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (at cited word) A Leaguer Ambassador, (one that makes a continuance) Un Ambassadeur ordinaire.
1826 W. Scott Woodstock II. x. 260 He lies leaguer, as a sort of ambassador for his worthy masters.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
leaguer-proof n.
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1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 9 There are some beauties so strong that they are leager-proof, they are so barricadoed that no battery..can doe good upon them.
C2. † leaguer-basket n. Obsolete a fascine.† leaguer-laundress n. Obsolete euphemistic name for a woman attached to a camp.
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1659 C. Hoole tr. J. A. Comenius Visible World (1672) 291 Engineres who lye behind Leagure-baskets [L. gerras].
leaguer-†lady n. = leaguer-laundress n.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman > other spec.
grass widow1529
leaguer-laundress1630
leaguer-lady1702
leaguer-lass1822
garrison-hack1876
sing-song girl1934
groupie1966
1702 R. Steele Funeral ii. 36 I shall take care..to keep you from Lord Hardy—From being a Leiger Lady, From carrying a Knapsack.
leaguer-lass n. = leaguer-laundress n.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman > other spec.
grass widow1529
leaguer-laundress1630
leaguer-lady1702
leaguer-lass1822
garrison-hack1876
sing-song girl1934
groupie1966
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel II. viii. 171 (motto) This were a leaguer-lass to love a soldier, To bind his wounds, and kiss his bloody brow.
1895 Q. Rev. Apr. 472 Her father had dreamed that Jeanne ‘went with the soldiers’, doubtless as a ‘leaguer-lass’.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > [noun] > sexual indulgence > unchaste behaviour of woman > unchaste or loose woman > other spec.
grass widow1529
leaguer-laundress1630
leaguer-lady1702
leaguer-lass1822
garrison-hack1876
sing-song girl1934
groupie1966
1630 P. Massinger Picture sig. B2v Were it not for my honesty I could wish now I were his leager landresse.
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leaguern.2
/ˈliːɡə/, U.S. /ˈliɡər/ 1.
a. A member of a league; in reference to French History, a member or adherent of the League formed against the Huguenots in the reign of Henry III; in modern times, a member of the Anti-Corn-Law League, the Irish Land League, etc.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [noun] > group associated for common purpose > member of
chorister1387
leaguer1591
combinator1611
associator1613
combinant1628
combiner1638
federate1650
federator1693
band-brother1742
leagueist1762
leaguite1841
belonger1931
panel member1937
society > authority > rule or government > politics > French politics > [noun] > members of political associations
leaguer1591
Jacobin1790
federate1793
Marseillais1794
Cagoulard1937
society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British political associations > [noun] > Anti-Corn-Law League > member of
leaguer1844
society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [noun] > societies or associations > members of
hougher1712
white boys1762
Steel boy1772
defender1788
United Irishman1791
Orangeman1796
marksman1800
Thresher1806
marchman1814
Orangist1822
Rockite1824
Brunswicker1828
Terry Alt1831
whitefoot1831
Repeal Warden1841
Young Irelander1844
Fenian1864
Land-leaguer1878
invincible1883
leaguer1892
Provie1972
1591 A. Colynet (title) True History of the Ciuill Warres of France, between the French King Henry 4. and the Leaguers.
1683 Apol. Protestants France iii. 8 The Liguers..did well to cry, To your Quarters White Scarfs, this is none of your quarrel.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 177 Here was no Leaguers in the Field, as at the Story of Noremberg.
1729 N. Tindal in tr. P. Rapin de Thoyras Hist. Eng. IX. xvii. 103 (note) After the Death of the Duke of Guise Henry III was accused by the Leaguers of having caused the Queen of Scots to be put to Death.
1844 R. Cobden Speeches 11 Dec., Speeches 1870 I. 229 One Leaguer in Manchester who has given more money..than [etc.].
1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 23 Aug. This last dirty move of the Loyal Leaguers to spite the Copperheads in view of the Chicago Convention.
1880 Libr. Universal Knowl. VIII. 136 The incendiary speeches of the Land Leaguers.
1892 H. Le Caron Twenty-five Years in Secret Service (1893) 181 O'Rorke and Andrew Kettle, both Leaguers.
1943 M. Ward G. K. Chesterton (1944) xxvi. 435 Many leaguers..felt..that the spirit of criticism of others was too fully developed.
1949 M. L. Darling At Freedom's Door i. ii. 52 In this year's election he stood as a Unionist, and like most Unionists was defeated by a Leaguer.
1970 Cape Times 28 Oct. 26/2 There are few American major leaguers earning less than $30,000 a year.
b. attributive, as leaguer-town.
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1591 Art. conc. Admiralty 21 July §51 All those, that..haue had trafficke with the Leaguers in France, or shipped..any victuals..for Spaine, the Islands, or any leaguer towne in Fraunce.
1647 T. May Hist. Parl. ii. v. 93 Sir John Meldrum arrived suddenly at a Leaguer-town called Aulby.
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?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xvii. 285 This same victles Leager, This bane of banquets; this most nasty begger.
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leaguern.3
/ˈliːɡə/, U.S. /ˈliɡər/ ?Obsolete.
a. A certain measure of arrack.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > [noun] > specific quantity of
dramc1590
leaguer1712
finger1820
glassful1841
four1869
nip1869
half1888
two1894
snifter1910
treble1968
balloon1973
triple1981
peg2003
the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > liquid measure of capacity > specific units of liquid measure > of arrack
leaguer1712
1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 398 Half a Leaguer of Spelman's Neep, or the best sort of Arrack.
1730 W. Wriglesworth MS. Log-bk. of ‘Lyell’ 15 Aug. Started 3 Leagers of Arrack belonging to the Ships Crew, into 3 Butts and a small Cask.
1788 G. Keate Acct. Pelew Islands viii. 83 They also discovered a cask of Arrack..it was half a Leaguer.
b. A cask of wine or oil, ? of a particular size.
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the world > food and drink > drink > containers for drink > [noun] > large for liquor > for wine
wine-barrelc950
wine-bottlec950
wine-bowlc950
wine boxc950
wine-buttc950
wine-canc950
wine-caskc950
wine-cupc950
wine-decanterc950
wine-flaskc950
wine-jarc950
wine jugc950
wine-tunc950
wine-vesselc950
pipe1314
lake1382
ampullaa1398
wine-pot14..
butt1418
stick1433
vinagerc1440
rumneya1475
fust1481
pece1594
sack-butt1599
fudder1679
Shaftesbury1699
wine glass1709
quarter pipe?1763
leaguer1773
porron1845
solera1863
octave1864
wine fountain1889
yu1904
lei1929
papsak1999
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > barrel or cask > [noun] > for liquids > of specific size
hogshead1390
snout1725
leaguer1773
1773 J. Hawkesworth Acct. Voy. Southern Hemisphere III. iii. xvi. 793 The provisions for which the French contracted this year..1,200 leagers of wine.
1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 348 [article Oilmen] Both parties require roomy outskirt premises for their stores; the former for his casks and his ‘leagers’.
1881 F. R. Statham Blacks, Boers, & British iv. 61 You want to see what can be done with South African wine?.. Visit a great airy shed not far from the Cape Town docks,..the rough and ready wine has become—what? Look at it and see it as it is drawn from the huge casks—leaguers they call them here.
1959 Cape Times 14 Mar. 2/6 Two lorries, one carrying a 5-leaguer tank of wine (some 800 gallons) collided here yesterday.
1970 Cape Times 28 Oct. 20/3 (advt.) A wine quota of 320 leaguers.
c. Nautical. (See quot. 1867.)
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the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > liquid measure of capacity > specific units of liquid measure > barrel or cask as unit
pipe1352
tunc1400
piece1423
hogshead1427
ton mascull1432
tierce1531
leaguer1683
tonneau1794
1683 in Hacke's Collect. Voy. (1699) I. 37 We had gotten in 36 Liggers of Water already.
1800 Naval Chron. 3 66 The largest casks are called leagers, and are of the following dimensions: Length..4 ft. 6 in., Diameter of Bouge..3 ft., Diameter of Chine..2 ft. 5 in.
1802 Naval Chron. 8 82 His object was to purchase 200 legars, to be filled with water..for the use of the cattle.
1821 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (ed. 2) ii. 169 Butts and Leaguers.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Leaguers, the longest water-casks, stowed near the kelson, of 159 English imperial gallons each. Before the invention of water-tanks, leaguers composed the whole ground tier of casks in men-of-war.
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leaguerv.
/ˈliːɡə/, U.S. /ˈliɡər/ a. reflexive and intransitive. To set one's leaguer, to encamp. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > take up quarters [verb (intransitive)] > encamp
camp1543
encamp1579
leaguer1629
laager1879
harbour1935
society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > take up quarters [verb (reflexive)] > encamp
encamp1549
leaguer1629
1629 tr. S. Pelegromius Descr. S'hertogenbosh 15 Leaguering himself on the East side of the Towne.
a1698 W. Row Suppl. in R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) x. 161 Where the army had leaguered the year preceding.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [verb (intransitive)]
liec1000
harbourc1200
sojournc1290
layc1300
sojourc1330
to make, take (up) one's lodging1362
pilgrimagea1382
bield?a1400
lodgec1400
tarryc1400
to make (one's) residence1433
harbingec1475
harbry1513
stay1554
roost?1555
embower1591
quarter1591
leaguer1596
allodge1601
tenta1616
visit1626
billet1628
to lie abroad1650
tabernacle1653
sojourney1657
canton1697
stop1797
to shake down1858
to hole up1875
perendinate1886
shack1935
cotch1950
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. V4 When I legerd by him in the Dolphin.
2. transitive. To besiege, beleaguer. Chiefly in ˈleaguered adj., ˈleaguering adj.
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society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > besiege or blockade [verb (transitive)]
belieOE
besita1100
beset?c1225
assiege1297
besiege1297
belayc1320
umsiegea1325
ensiegec1380
environa1382
to set before1382
siege1390
forset?a1400
foldc1400
setc1400
to lay siege to, unto, about, against, beforec1449
oppugn?a1475
pursue1488
obsess1503
ferma1522
gird1548
begird1589
beleaguer1590
block1591
invest1591
intermure1606
blockade1684
to lay blockade to1713
leaguer1720
to form the siege1776
cerne1857
society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [adjective] > besieged or blockaded
assieged1383
besiegedc1440
ysegede?a1475
sieged1567
invested1582
beleaguered1644
leaguered1720
blockaded1747
society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [adjective] > besieging or blockading
blockading1735
beleaguering1753
investing1780
besieging1813
leaguering1816
1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xviii. 593 Two mighty Hosts a leaguer'd Town embrace.
1794 S. T. Coleridge Fall of Robespierre ii. i That the voice of truth..though leagured round By envy and her hateful brood of hell, Be heard.
1816 Ld. Byron Siege of Corinth ii. 8 The crescent shines Along the Moslem's leaguering lines.
1855 W. Sargent Braddock's Exped. 362 His..defence of Detroit against Pontiac and his leaguering hordes.
1860 T. Martin tr. Horace Odes 19 The watchfires round Troy's leaguer'd wall.
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