League

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 59

lēg, n. a nautical measure, 1 ⁄ 20 th of a degree, 3 geographical miles, 3.456 statute miles: an old measure of length, varying from the Roman league, 1.376 mod. Eng. miles, to the French, 2.764 miles, and the Spanish, 4.214 miles. [O. Fr. legue (Fr. lieue )—L. leuca , a Gallic mile of 1500 Roman paces; from the Celt., as in Bret. leó .]