leaguer

From Dutch leger (“army”), itself derived from Proto-Germanic *legrą. Doublet of lair.

leaguer (plural leaguers)

1. A siege.

   We must break the leaguer of the city.

2. The camp of a besieging army; a camp in general.
   • 1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass:

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

• beleaguered

leaguer (third-person singular simple present leaguers, present participle leaguering, simple past and past participle leaguered)

1. To set up camp.
   • 1987, Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger:

     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.
   • 1869 December (indicated as 1870 January), James Russell Lowell, “The Cathedral”, in James Thomas Fields, editor, The Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics, volume XXV, number CXLVII, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5:

     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, […]

• leaguerer

From league +‎ -er.

leaguer (plural leaguers)

1. (usually in compounds) A person in a league

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

Related to lager.

leaguer (plural leaguers)

1. A measure of liquid.
   • 1794, Cape of Good Hope:

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

   • 1819, The Glasgow Geography, page 41:

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

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “leaguer”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

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