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.

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

   1616, Ben Jonson, The Devil Is an Ass

present singular third person leaguers · participle present leaguering · participle past leaguered · past leaguered

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...

   1987, Penelope Lively, Moon Tiger

2. obsoleteTo 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, […]

   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

plural leaguers

1. in compoundsusuallyA person in a league.

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

plural leaguers

1. A measure of liquid.

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

   1794, Cape of Good Hope

   1 more example

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

   1819, The Glasgow Geography, page 41