(countable) A roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates.
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I would have the tower two stories, and goodly leads upon the top.
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1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Building”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
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These rooms were on a level with the apartments of our friends Bows and Costigan next door at No. 4; and by reaching over the communicating leads, Grady could command the mignonette-box which bloomed in Bows’s window.
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1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis. […], volume , London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC: