leade

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leade (plural leades)

1. That portion of a firearm's barrel immediately in front of the chamber where the bullet travels prior to contacting the rifling.
   • 2004, Tom A. Warlow, Firearms, The Law And Forensic Ballistics, page 117:

     The bullet must then jump some distance before it enters the leade of the rifling in the barrel. There is always some tendency for skidding to occur before the rifling fully engages […]

• Adele, Edale, adele, deale

leade

1. second-person plural imperative of lear

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• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈle̯ate/

leade

1. sheep stable

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland