dial. [Of uncertain origin: by some referred to OE. (*hlíete) hléte, ON. hløyti share, portion; the OE. word, however, is recorded only in the sense ‘casting of lots.’] A stack of peat, etc. (see quots.).
1744–50. W. Ellis, Mod. Husbandm., IV. x. 98. In Hertfordshire the same Morning the Grass is mown … we ted … it … the same day … it may be … raked into Windrows, and then put into Grass-cocks. The second [day] we shake it into square Leets … then put it into Bastard-cocks.
1793. Statist. Acc. Scot., V. 101. Peats are estimated by the leet, which is a solid body piled up like bricks, 24 feet long, and 12 ft. broad at bottom and 12 feet high.
1892. Blackw. Mag., Oct., 475. Carage, carting and leading a leet or stack of peats.
