Wiktionary
n. That portion of a firearm's barrel immediately in front of the chamber where the bullet travels prior to contacting the rifling.
Wikipedia
Leade may refer to:
- Jane Leade - a Christian mystic
- in firearms terminology - the "leade" is the distance between the mouth of the gun cartridge and the point at which the rifling engages the bullet. Also called 'throat'.
- lead paragraph - a "leade" or " lede" is the first paragraphs of a news article or other literary piece, used to distinguish from lead, which in print publishing could be confused with " leading."
Usage examples of "leade".
The torch bled smoke onto the corbeled ceiling, revealing the symbols of power carved into the stones: ships drawing the sun down to the underworld, the spiral path leading the dead to the Other Side, the hands of the Holy Ones who had gone before, reaching for the four staffs of knowledge.
Kluge looked down to the leaded glove on his right hand, the one that both threw and caught the returning wheel, the other great weapon of the Minions.
Occasionally they would dart in and out of the hall through large double doors in a nearby wall, presumably leading to the kitchens.
Shannon sat upon Pilgrim, leading the way through the ever-thickening woods.
The wizard then accomplished the same feat with his own mount and began to walk behind the falls, leading his horse, beckoning Tristan to follow.
In the center of the room was a blue marble spiral stairway leading downward.
The result is initial happiness, followed by addiction, always leading eventually to madness and then death.
A road ran along the valley floor below her, leading into a magnificent city that spanned a dried-up lakebed.
Instead of a neat trail of beacons leading her forward, she stared at a confusing scatter of stepping stones sprayed across the icy sea, too many to count.
As she wove it in with the other stars, threads flowered to life among the flattened oval of the stones to form a passageway leading to another loom.
Holy One brought him off the path leading to the lands of the dead, so that he might be my companion until the last day.
They retreated into the tunnel from which they had emerged just as two figures appeared in the other entrance, illuminated by torchlight, spear points leading their cautious advance.
The hounds had gotten ahead and were now trying to push past Two Fingers, who was leading them through the dark.
With his staff held vertically, Alain shoved the point aside and, using the rocks to protect himself, twisted within the cleft, striking the leading warrior so hard in the face that he staggered Backward into the others.
Birds explode up from their grassy hideaways, flooding the sky, and in the distance a huge beast with an impossibly long, sinuous nose and horns thrusting out on either side of its great mouth lumbers past, leading more of its kind toward an unknown destination.