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leant

Verb

The word is derived from lean

Meaning

of Lean

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger. Jeremy Clarkson

I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day The tangled bine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires. Thomas Hardy

I'd have liked to have leant against walls in thrillers. Celia Johnson

She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship. E. M. Forster

Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been leant to you. Walloon Proverb

Money leant to a friend must be recovered from an enemy. German Proverb

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