Definition of "ley"

ley¹

/leɪ/

noun
plural leys
1. Alternative spelling of lea
2. A ley line.
  Quotations
  For a ley hunter, local people – particularly the elderly – can be mines of information. Devereux and Thomson recount how they asked a septuagenarian in a remote village the location of an elusive stone, without mentioning the subject of leys: […]
  2010, Philip Carr-Gomm, Richard Heygate, The Book of English Magic
adjective
not comparable
1. (agriculture) Fallow; unseeded.
2. (agriculture) Rotated to pasture instead of cropping.

ley²

/leɪ/

noun
1. Archaic form of lye.

ley³

/leɪ/

noun
1. (obsolete) Law.