ley

Plural: leys

Noun

• A piece of grassland, often temporary, used for pasture or hay.
• a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
• Arable land used temporarily for hay or grazing.
• A ley line.
• Alternative spelling of lea.
• Archaic form of lye.
• Law.

Adj

• Fallow; unseeded.
• Rotated to pasture instead of cropping.

Examples

• The letters L-E-Y were often left on the rack, a verdant but low-scoring field.

Synonyms

grazing land, lea, pasture, pastureland

Related Words

peso ley