A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Leg(e, Legge, n.3 [Late ME. leuge, lewge, lege, leghe, leege (late 14–15th c.), leuke, lewke, leeke (15th c.), e.m.E. lege, legge, league etc., late L. leuga, leuca (Prov. and Ital. lega, etc.). Cf. also Lig.] A league, the itinerary measure of distance. —1456 Hay I. 52/22.
Sa come schir Hanyball … towart the citee … quhill he come nere at twa myle or thre, that is bot a Frenche legge a1500 Seven S. 1806.
Fra the cite thai war nocht gane Twa legis bot scantly ane 1693 Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. II. 216.
Its seveared from the south end of Mull by a narrow sound 3 part of a leg
