Usage note: When used alone it means outside lead, or lead for the admission of steam. Inside lead refers to the release or exhaust.

his beard grew thin and hungerly

Long they thus travelled in friendly wise, / Through countreyes waste, and eke well edifyde ….

The group of seven had driven up to a village in Zhangqiao town in a minivan late one September night. There, they used home-made traps to catch the geckos, which they planned to sell. But they were caught and the 1,689 geckos that they caught were released back into the wild.