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leats

leats is the plural of leat.

Meaning of leat

Noun

leat (plural leats)

  1. An artificial watercourse, canal, or aqueduct, but especially a millrace.
    • His paws rested on a sunken branch. The water moved down, clouded with the mud-stirrings of the leat. He lay so still that the trout returned to their stances beside the stone sterlings.1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19

Questions about leats

What is leats the plural of?
Leats is the plural of leat.

Words near leats in the dictionary

  1. Leathley
  2. Leathorn
  3. Leathorns
  4. Leaths
  5. Leaton
  6. leats
  7. leatwright
  8. leatwrights
  9. leaue
  10. leavability
  11. leavable

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