leans

• IPA^(key): /liːnz/
• Rhymes: -iːnz

leans

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of lean

leans

1. (aviation, with the) A dangerous sensory illusion where the pilot of an aircraft believes themselves to be in a bank when they are actually wings-level, or vice-versa, often resulting in spatial disorientation and loss of control of the aircraft.

   If you don't use your flight instruments when flying in cloud, you can easily get the leans and enter a fatal graveyard spiral.

2. plural of lean

• ANSEL, Ansel, ELANs, Elsan, L'Anse, Nales, Slane, elans, enals, lanes, neals, slane, slean

Old French laiens.

leans

1. here; there (in a given place)

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (laiens)