leod

plural leods

1. alternativeAlternative form of lede (“person, people”).

   Therefore have I no lykinge with tho leods to wonne.

   1794, Joseph Ritson, The English Anthology. - Volume 3, page 43

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   If any of the leod were obstructed in their attendance on the king, a heavy penalty was incurred.

   1875, Proceedings of the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society, page 323

   In a world in which virtually everyone was a farmer, farming was not an 'occupation': the early medieval leod who, on the one hand, was in military service to the king, could also have fields to till.

   2002, Helena Hamerow, “The Forces of Production: Crop and Animal Husbandry”, in Early Medieval Settlements