c. 1600, in the classical sense, "cardoon, artichoke," from Latin **ctus, from Greek **ktos, name of a type of prickly plant of Sicily (the Spanish artichoke), a "foreign word of unknown origin" [Beekes]. In reference to the green, leafless, spiked American plants from 1769.

"wash or drain by percolation of water, treat by downward drainage," by 1660s in cookery, perhaps from a dialectal survival from Old English leccan "to moisten, water, wet, irrigate," which, under Norse influence, became leak (v.).

"roofed passage, vent for smoke," later "shed for animals" (mid-15c.), of unknown origin. The proposal that it is a diminutive of Old English hof "dwellings, farm" is "etymologically and chronologically inadmissible" [OED]. Meaning "shed for human habitation; rude or miserable cabin" is from 1620s.

mid-13c., *leden, "make a plea in court," from Anglo-French *leder, Old French *laidier, "***ad at court" (11c.), from Medieval Latin placitare, from Late Latin placitum "lawsuit."

ah! thank you! Yes, lovely work! Esp. like the scaring on Jaromir's head. 👏👏👏

"mass of **our or meal moistened and mixed for baking," Middle English **gh, from Old English *ag "**ugh," from Proto-Germanic *daigaz "something kneaded" (source also of Old Norse deig, Swedish deg, Middle Dutch deech, Dutch deeg, Old High German teic)

but unbroken as they fight to prove they deserve the legacy that was left to them.

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Captain Minka Lesk returns and is tested as never before. As she leads her regiment in the Gallows Cluster, she must deal with a threat she's never seen – a jungle that wants to eat her troops alive!