leaguer
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Dutch leger (“army”), itself derived from Proto-Germanic *legrą. Doublet of lair.
Noun edit
leaguer (plural leaguers)
- A siege.
- We must break the leaguer of the city.
- The camp of a besieging army; a camp in general.
- 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass:
- Your sutler's wife in the leaguer, of two blanks
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Verb edit
leaguer (third-person singular simple present leaguers, present participle leaguering, simple past and past participle leaguered)
- (obsolete) To besiege; to beleaguer.
- To set up camp.
- 1987, Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger:
- So we leaguer here, get some sleep pray God, we had damn all last night, everyone doing repairs till all hours...
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
leaguer (plural leaguers)
- (usually in compounds) A person in a league
- I'm not a major-leaguer; I just play baseball.
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Etymology 3 edit
Related to lager.
Noun edit
leaguer (plural leaguers)
- A measure of liquid.
- 1794, Cape of Good Hope:
- Excise duty had to be paid on each leaguer of brandy exported.
- 1819, The Glasgow Geography, page 41:
- 5000 leaguers of rum went to Angola , for the purchase of slaves.
References edit
- Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “leaguer”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].