Citations:lease

English citations of lease

1. Verb: "to gather, pick, select, glean".
   • c. 1690, Dryden, Theocritus, in The works of John Dryden, vol. XII, William Miller, page 283:

     My last recourse I had to sieve and sheers, / And told the witch Agreo my disease: / (Agreo, that in harvest is used to lease....