leaguer
/lˈiɡɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.43 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A siege.
noun
The camp of a besieging army; a camp in general.
verb
To set up camp.
Example Sentences
- "We must break the leaguer of the city."
- "Your sutler's wife in the leaguer, of two blanks"
- "So we leaguer here, get some sleep pray God, we had damn all last night, everyone doing repairs till all hours..."
- "Looking up suddenly, I found mine eyes / Confronted with the minster's vast repose. / Silent and gray as forest-leaguered cliff / Left inland by the ocean's slow retreat, […]"
- "I'm not a major-leaguer; I just play baseball."
- "Excise duty had to be paid on each leaguer of brandy exported."