leam
Not valid in Scrabble
It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.
- Scrabble points
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 8
- Letters
- 4
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Definition of leam
6 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (UK, dialectal, intransitive)To gleam; shine; glow.
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verb
- (UK, dialectal, intransitive)To gleam; shine; glow.
noun
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(UK, dialectal)A gleam or flash of light; a glow or glowing.
“The Leams of the morning sun streamed through the half-closed shutters”
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A cord or strap for leading a dog.
“The horsemen spreading themselves along the side of the cover, waited untill the keeper entered, leading his ban-dog; a large blood-hound tied in a leam or band, from which he takes his name.”
name
- A river in England that rises in Northamptonshire, before flowing through Warwickshire and joining the Warwickshire Avon near Warwick.
- A hamlet in Grindleford parish, Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK2379).
- (informal)Leamington Spa
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English lemen, from Old English lȳman, from Proto-West Germanic *liuhmijan, from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“light, bright”).
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