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leaguer
1[ lee-ger ]
leaguer
2[ lee-ger ]
verb (used with object)
- to besiege.
noun
- a siege.
leaguer
1/ ˈliːɡə /
noun
- a member of a league
leaguer
2/ ˈliːɡə /
noun
- an encampment, esp of besiegers
- the siege itself
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Origin of leaguer1
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Example Sentences
The Christians were through the leaguer, and entered Mawana without losing a man, and with their supply of cartridges intact.
A dead silence soon reigned over that great host which lay in leaguer before Liege.
But we cannot hold out with our few folk and scanty provender against the leaguer of thirty thousand.
Rogers speaks of shipping while at Batavia "half a leaguer of Spelman's neep, or the best sort of arrack."
I looked about for a place to stand upon, to speak unto the people, for they lay all up and down, like people at a leaguer.
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