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Meaning of leat | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

/liːt/

Definitions

An artificial watercourse, canal, or aqueduct, but especially a millrace.

Equivalents

Português levada

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B1

Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

See also

Leath Leatham leather leather and prunella leather carp leather cheerio