1) Exclusively Saxon word 2) Exclusively Anglo word 3) First part of a news story 4) News article intro 5) Opening of a story 6) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins 7) Word of purely Anglo origin 
The phonetic spelling of lead, the beginning, usually the first paragraph, of an article, so spelled as to indicate the specialized meaning rather than the common meaning to a Linotype operator. (courtesy of John E McIntyre)
a deliberate misspelling of lead