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say it: LEE-nur
leaner is a noun meaning "(horseshoes) the throw of a horseshoe so as to lean against (but not encircle) the stake". It carries one recorded sense.
(horseshoes) the throw of a horseshoe so as to lean against (but not encircle) the stake
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Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for leaner come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.