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  1. leatnoun

    an artificial watercourse, canal or aqueduct, but especially a millrace

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  1. Leat

    A leat (; also lete or leet, or millstream) is the name, common in the south and west of England and in Wales, for an artificial watercourse or aqueduct dug into the ground, especially one supplying water to a watermill or its mill pond. Other common uses for leats include delivery of water for hydraulic mining and mineral concentration, for irrigation, to serve a dye works or other industrial plant, and provision of drinking water to a farm or household or as a catchment cut-off to improve the yield of a reservoir. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, leat is cognate with let in the sense of "allow to pass through". Other names for the same thing include fleam (probably a leat supplying water to a mill that did not have a millpool). In parts of northern England, for example around Sheffield, the equivalent word is goit. In southern England, a leat used to supply water for water-meadow irrigation is often called a carrier, top carrier, or main.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Leatnoun

    an artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill

  2. Etymology: [Cf. Lead to conduct.]

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  1. Leat

    A leat is the name, common in the south and west of England and in Wales, for an artificial watercourse or aqueduct dug into the ground, especially one supplying water to a watermill or its mill pond. Other common uses for leats include delivery of water for mineral washing and concentration, for irrigation, to serve a dye works or other industrial plant, and provision of drinking water to a farm or household or as a catchment cut-off to improve the yield of a reservoir. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, leat is cognate with let in the sense of "allow to pass through". Other names for the same thing include fleam. In parts of northern England, for example around Sheffield, the equivalent word is goit. In southern England, a leat used to supply water for water-meadow irrigation is often called a carrier, top carrier, or main.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Leat

    Leet, lēt, n. (prov.) a trench for bringing water to a mill-wheel.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. leat

    A canal leading from a pool to a mill-course.

Anagrams for leat »

  1. et al.

  2. ETLA

  3. late

  4. tael

  5. tale

  6. teal

  7. tela

  8. laet

  9. atle

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of leat in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of leat in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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