leaguer

noun

1. A siege.

   “We must break the leaguer of the city.”

2. The camp of a besieging army; a camp in general.

   “Your sutler's wife in the leaguer, of two blanks”

3. (in-compounds, usually)A person in a league

   “I'm not a major-leaguer; I just play baseball.”

4. A measure of liquid.

   “Excise duty had to be paid on each leaguer of brandy exported.”

   “5000 leaguers of rum went to Angola , for the purchase of slaves.”

verb

1. To set up camp.

   “So we leaguer here, get some sleep pray God, we had damn all last night, everyone doing repairs till all hours...”

2. (obsolete)To beleaguer; to besiege.

   “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, […]”