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leaguer

leaguer noun: a siege.

Noun (1)

leaguer (plural leaguers)

  1. A siege.
    • We must break the leaguer of the city.
  2. The camp of a besieging army; a camp in general.
    • Your sutler's wife in the leaguer, of two blanks1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass

Verb

leaguer (third-person singular simple present leaguers, present participle leaguering, simple past and past participle leaguered)

  1. To set up camp.
    • So we leaguer here, get some sleep pray God, we had damn all last night, everyone doing repairs till all hours...1987, Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger
  2. (obsolete) To beleaguer; to besiege.
    • Looking up suddenly, I found mine eyes / Confronted with the minster's vast repose. / Silent and gray as forest-leaguered cliff / Left inland by the ocean's slow retreat, […]1869 December (indicated as 1870 January), James Russell Lowell, “The Cathedral”, in James Thomas Fields, editor, The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume...

Noun (2)

leaguer (plural leaguers)

  1. (in-compounds, usually) A person in a league.
    • I'm not a major-leaguer; I just play baseball.

Noun (3)

leaguer (plural leaguers)

  1. A measure of liquid.
    • Excise duty had to be paid on each leaguer of brandy exported.1794, Cape of Good Hope
    • 5000 leaguers of rum went to Angola , for the purchase of slaves.1819, The Glasgow Geography, page 41

Forms of leaguer

Noun
pluralleaguers
Verb
third-person singular presentleaguers
present participleleaguering
past participleleaguered
pastleaguered

Origin of leaguer

From Dutch leger (“army”), itself derived from Proto-Germanic *legrą. Doublet of lair.

From league + -er.

Related to lager.

Words formed from leaguer

Phrases with leaguer

Questions about leaguer

What does leaguer mean?
Leaguer means a siege.
What part of speech is leaguer?
Leaguer can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of leaguer?
The plural of leaguer is leaguers.

Words near leaguer in the dictionary

  1. league table
  2. league tables
  3. League Two
  4. leagued
  5. leaguelong
  6. leaguer
  7. leaguered
  8. leaguerer
  9. leaguerers
  10. leaguering
  11. leaguers

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