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leaguer

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lea·guer 1  (lgr)
n.
1. A siege.
2. The camp especially of a besieging army.
tr.v. lea·guered, lea·guer·ing, lea·guers Archaic
To besiege; beleaguer.
[Dutch leger, lair, camp, from Middle Dutch lgher, lair, camp, siege; see legh- in Indo-European roots.]
leagu·er 2  (lgr)
n.
One that belongs to a league.
leaguer1
n Archaic
1. (Military) an encampment, esp of besiegers
2. (Military) the siege itself
[from Dutch leger siege; related to lair1]
leaguer2
n
Chiefly US and Canadian a member of a league


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Precaution, 1820; The Spy, 1821; The Pioneers, 1823; The Pilot, 1823; Lionel Lincoln, or the Leaguer of Boston, 1825; The Last of the Mohicans, 1826; The Prairie, 1827; The Red Rover, 1828; Notions of the Americans, 1828; The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish, 1829; The Water-witch,
The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
``No wonder that churls and yeomen wax so presumptuous as even to lay leaguer before castles, and that clowns and swineherds send defiances to nobles, since men-at-arms have turned sick men's nurses, and Free Companions are grown keepers of dying folk's curtains, when the castle is about to be assailed.
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