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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread wine lees #89700 12/17/2002 2:15 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Wine lees are made up of dead yeast cells, skin fragments and insoluble tartrates. lees n.pl. 5pl. of lee (obs. in sing.) < ME lie < OFr < ML lia < Gaul *liga, akin to OIr lige, a bed, layer < IE base *legh3 > LIE16 dregs or sediment, as of fermenting wine Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted wine lees wwh 12/17/2002 2:15 PM Re: wine lees dxb 12/17/2002 6:11 PM Re: wine lees Wordwind 12/18/2002 1:26 PM Re: Chewing wine lees Faldage 12/18/2002 1:30 PM Re: wine lees dxb 12/18/2002 3:08 PM Re: China lees dxb 12/18/2002 4:09 PM No, he was Ko-rhee-an wofahulicodoc 12/18/2002 4:29 PM Re: No, he was Ko-rhee-an dxb 12/18/2002 5:17 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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