leyn.

Brit.

/liː/,

/leɪ/, U.S.

/leɪ/,

/li/

Etymology: Variant of lea n.¹

The supposed line of a prehistoric track in a straight line usually from hilltop to hilltop with identifying points such as ponds, mounds, etc., marking its route (see also quot. 1932).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > track, trail, or path > [noun] > line of former or prehistoric

track-line1848

ley1922

ley line1972

1922 A. Watkins Early Brit. Trackways 12 The sighting line was called the ley or lay.

1922 A. Watkins Early Brit. Trackways 13 Previous writers, treating, say, of Roman or of mediæval roads, not knowing of the existence of the ley, assume that they are speaking of original primary structures, when they are only describing a route evolved from a number of the leys I describe.

1925 A. Watkins Old Straight Track 220 When you get a good ley on the map, go over it in the field, and fragments and traces of the trackways may be found, always in straight lines.

1932 D. Maxwell Detective in Surrey v. 86 A ley..is an invisible and imaginary line, drawn from one point in the landscape to another, mathematically straight... The key positions..are points where two or more leys cross... The crossing places..would be places of meeting.

1971 It 2 June 24/4 The leys..interlaced over the whole country.

1974 Bookseller 26 Jan. 192 (advt.) Alfred Watkins' theory about leys which connect ancient sites.

Draft additions 1997

Also ley line; hence ley-liner n. a believer in ley lines.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > track, trail, or path > [noun] > line of former or prehistoric

track-line1848

ley1922

ley line1972

society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > track, trail, or path > [noun] > line of former or prehistoric > a believer in

ley-liner1972

1972 N. Saunders Alternative London (ed. 3) xv. 140 The magazine about ley lines, plus lots of information about megalithic sites etc. in Britain.

1981 A. Burl Rites of Gods 3 Before concluding that this was a Golden Age in these islands, as ley-liners would have us believe.

1981 A. Burl Rites of Gods 8 The illusory ley-lines that entice their believers farther and farther from the realities of prehistoric existence.

1991 Here's Health Jan. 65/3 (advt.) Lighthouse on Ley Lines offers unique setting for Relaxation, Floating & B&B.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

> see also

also refers to : lealeylayn.²

also refers to : lealeylayadj.

> as lemmas

ley

a. Land that has remained untilled for some time; arable land under grass; land ‘laid down’ for pasture, pasture-land, grass-land. clover-lay, ley: see clover n. Compounds 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture

leasowc950

leasea1000

pasturea1300

common pasturea1325

grassland1324

laund1340

lea1357

gang1413

feedingc1430

grassa1500

raika1500

beast-gate1507

pasturagec1515

grazing1517

average1537

pasture groundc1537

walk1549

grassing1557

pastural1575

browsing1577

feed1580

pastureland1591

meadow pasture1614

green side1616

range1626

pastorage1628

tore1707

graziery1731

pasturing1759

permanent pasture1771

sweet-veld1785

walk land1797

run1804

sweet-grass1812

potrero1822

pasturage land1855

turn-out1895

lawn1899

1357 in W. H. D. Longstaffe & J. Booth Halmota Prioratus Dunelmensis (1889) 19 Concelavit eos qui depast. fuerunt les leyes.

1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. viii. 5 Treuthe..bad holden hem at hom and heren heore leyȝes [B. vii. 5 leyes].

a1400–50 Alexander 3561 Ai wald þe wise haue wale soile mare þan a wast lee.

c1420 Pallad. on Husb. vi. 30 Nowe feeldes fatte..Is good to plowe, and leyes vp to breke.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 285/1 Lay, londe not telyd.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. v^v If y^u haue any leys to falowe or to sowe otes vpon, first plowe them.

1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. B.iiii In Ianuary husbandes that powcheth the grotes: will break vp their lay [1580 laie], or be sowing of otes.

1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. xi. 36 Rapes require a broken-vp lay and a rich layer.

a1649 W. Drummond Irene in Wks. (1711) 164 The Husband-man..had turned his Acres into Leyes, his Syths and Ploughs into Swords.

1713 London Gaz. No. 5143/4 12 Acres of Meadow Ground, and 4 Leys and a half in St. Ives.

1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. ii. xii. 232 In ploughing lea, where the sward is tough.

1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) I. 28 He also spreads this manure on lays he intends breaking up.

1808 J. C. Curwen Hints Econ. Feeding Stock 12 Having destroyed all old lays, I have no other hay than clover.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Lay, ley, land which has been sown with annual or biennial grasses, and has come round to the time to be reploughed.

1892 Lichfield Mercury 20 May 5/2 Good Ley for few Horses.

1932 Discovery Feb. 61/1 Some progressive farmers are alternating four years of corn-growing with four years of temporary grass leys, on which bullocks and grass-land sheep are fed.

1957 New Biol. 24 42 In many areas it was not convenient to change arable land to leys of any considerable duration.

1962 Listener 1 Feb. 214/1 The old permanent pastures are being replaced by temporary leys, with the plough ‘going all round the farm’.

1972 Oxf. Times 28 July 8 Don't be in a hurry to plough up and re-seed leys and permanent pastures.

extracted from lealeylayn.²

n.1922

单词	ley
释义	leyn. Brit. /liː/, /leɪ/, U.S. /leɪ/, /li/ Etymology: Variant of lea n.¹ The supposed line of a prehistoric track in a straight line usually from hilltop to hilltop with identifying points such as ponds, mounds, etc., marking its route (see also quot. 1932). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > track, trail, or path > [noun] > line of former or prehistoric track-line1848 ley1922 ley line1972 1922 A. Watkins Early Brit. Trackways 12 The sighting line was called the ley or lay. 1922 A. Watkins Early Brit. Trackways 13 Previous writers, treating, say, of Roman or of mediæval roads, not knowing of the existence of the ley, assume that they are speaking of original primary structures, when they are only describing a route evolved from a number of the leys I describe. 1925 A. Watkins Old Straight Track 220 When you get a good ley on the map, go over it in the field, and fragments and traces of the trackways may be found, always in straight lines. 1932 D. Maxwell Detective in Surrey v. 86 A ley..is an invisible and imaginary line, drawn from one point in the landscape to another, mathematically straight... The key positions..are points where two or more leys cross... The crossing places..would be places of meeting. 1971 It 2 June 24/4 The leys..interlaced over the whole country. 1974 Bookseller 26 Jan. 192 (advt.) Alfred Watkins' theory about leys which connect ancient sites. Draft additions 1997 Also ley line; hence ley-liner n. a believer in ley lines. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > track, trail, or path > [noun] > line of former or prehistoric track-line1848 ley1922 ley line1972 society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > track, trail, or path > [noun] > line of former or prehistoric > a believer in ley-liner1972 1972 N. Saunders Alternative London (ed. 3) xv. 140 The magazine about ley lines, plus lots of information about megalithic sites etc. in Britain. 1981 A. Burl Rites of Gods 3 Before concluding that this was a Golden Age in these islands, as ley-liners would have us believe. 1981 A. Burl Rites of Gods 8 The illusory ley-lines that entice their believers farther and farther from the realities of prehistoric existence. 1991 Here's Health Jan. 65/3 (advt.) Lighthouse on Ley Lines offers unique setting for Relaxation, Floating & B&B. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : lealeylayn.² also refers to : lealeylayadj. > as lemmas ley a. Land that has remained untilled for some time; arable land under grass; land ‘laid down’ for pasture, pasture-land, grass-land. clover-lay, ley: see clover n. Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture leasowc950 leasea1000 pasturea1300 common pasturea1325 grassland1324 laund1340 lea1357 gang1413 feedingc1430 grassa1500 raika1500 beast-gate1507 pasturagec1515 grazing1517 average1537 pasture groundc1537 walk1549 grassing1557 pastural1575 browsing1577 feed1580 pastureland1591 meadow pasture1614 green side1616 range1626 pastorage1628 tore1707 graziery1731 pasturing1759 permanent pasture1771 sweet-veld1785 walk land1797 run1804 sweet-grass1812 potrero1822 pasturage land1855 turn-out1895 lawn1899 1357 in W. H. D. Longstaffe & J. Booth Halmota Prioratus Dunelmensis (1889) 19 Concelavit eos qui depast. fuerunt les leyes. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. viii. 5 Treuthe..bad holden hem at hom and heren heore leyȝes [B. vii. 5 leyes]. a1400–50 Alexander 3561 Ai wald þe wise haue wale soile mare þan a wast lee. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. vi. 30 Nowe feeldes fatte..Is good to plowe, and leyes vp to breke. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 285/1 Lay, londe not telyd. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. v^v If y^u haue any leys to falowe or to sowe otes vpon, first plowe them. 1557 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandrie sig. B.iiii In Ianuary husbandes that powcheth the grotes: will break vp their lay [1580 laie], or be sowing of otes. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. xi. 36 Rapes require a broken-vp lay and a rich layer. a1649 W. Drummond Irene in Wks. (1711) 164 The Husband-man..had turned his Acres into Leyes, his Syths and Ploughs into Swords. 1713 London Gaz. No. 5143/4 12 Acres of Meadow Ground, and 4 Leys and a half in St. Ives. 1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. ii. xii. 232 In ploughing lea, where the sward is tough. 1780 A. Young Tour Ireland (Dublin ed.) I. 28 He also spreads this manure on lays he intends breaking up. 1808 J. C. Curwen Hints Econ. Feeding Stock 12 Having destroyed all old lays, I have no other hay than clover. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Lay, ley, land which has been sown with annual or biennial grasses, and has come round to the time to be reploughed. 1892 Lichfield Mercury 20 May 5/2 Good Ley for few Horses. 1932 Discovery Feb. 61/1 Some progressive farmers are alternating four years of corn-growing with four years of temporary grass leys, on which bullocks and grass-land sheep are fed. 1957 New Biol. 24 42 In many areas it was not convenient to change arable land to leys of any considerable duration. 1962 Listener 1 Feb. 214/1 The old permanent pastures are being replaced by temporary leys, with the plough ‘going all round the farm’. 1972 Oxf. Times 28 July 8 Don't be in a hurry to plough up and re-seed leys and permanent pastures. extracted from lealeylayn.² < n.1922 see also as lemmas
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