Now dial. Also 4 lezere, 6 lezer. [f. LEASE v.1 + -ER1.] A gleaner.
1340. Ayenb., 86. Hi abideþ and wylneþ þane dyaþ ase deþ … þe lezere his haruest.
1534. Act 25 Hen. VIII., c. 1, Stat. Irel. (1678), 46. Every such gatherer, lezer or lezers.
1586. J. Hooker, Hist. Irel., in Holinshed, II. 88/1. An act against leasers of corne.
1724. Swift, Drapier’s Lett., Wks. 1755, V. II. 133. I knew there was no office of any kind, which a man from England might not have … and … I looked upon all who had the disadvantage of being born here, as only in the condition of leasers and gleaners.
1828. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. III. 242. You cannot proceed a quarter of a mile, without encountering some merry group of leasers.
