This section is from "The Domestic Encyclopaedia Vol3", by A. F. M. Willich. Amazon: The Domestic Encyclopaedia.
Lea, a measure used in some parts of England, to express a certain quantity of yarn.—The statute 22 Car. II. directs a lea of yarn, at Kidderminster, to contain two hundred threads, on reels that are four yards in circumference.
 
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