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Definition of leat in English: leatnoun liːt British An open watercourse conducting water to a mill. the Little Avon was used to feed the millpond via a half mile long leat Example sentencesExamples - Due to the necessity of following the contours the length of the leat was seventeen and a half miles.
- The Leat Project restored a man-made water channel or leat, at the Woodland Education Centre which is in south-west England.
- There are several features associated with leats, one being the ‘sheep leap’.
- There are a number of leats existing in Somerset and a typical example can be seen at the Mill at Warren Farm, Exmoor.
- Factory buildings spread from the leats on the west side of the river up the north side of Exwick Hill.
- The purpose of this was to stop the leat overflowing in times of high water.
- Lately there has been no water in the leats while work has been underway but the flow will be restored on completion of the repairs.
- However, the leats were not originally built to supply mills with power, but were excavated for the draining and reclamation of land between the city wall and the Exe.
- There are also leats for water meadows, tin works, farm and cottage drinking water supplies.
- A whim shaft and earth dams and leats are also visible.
- The Luxulyan Valley, including ownership of the leats, was acquired by two Councils in 1992 from the clay industry.
Origin Late 16th century: from Old English -gelǣt (recorded in wætergelǣt 'water channel'), related to lǣtan 'to let'. Rhymes accrete, autocomplete, beet, bittersweet, bleat, cheat, cleat, clubfeet, compete, compleat, complete, conceit, Crete, deceit, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, eat, effete, élite, entreat, escheat, estreat, excrete, feat, feet, fleet, gîte, greet, heat, leet, Magritte, maltreat, marguerite, meat, meet, meet-and-greet, mesquite, mete, mistreat, neat, outcompete, peat, Pete, petite, pleat, receipt, replete, sangeet, seat, secrete, sheet, skeet, sleet, splay-feet, street, suite, sweet, teat, treat, tweet, wheat |