lyam
English
Etymology
See leam.
Noun
lyam (plural lyams)
- (obsolete) A leash.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Drayton to this entry?)
- 1896 June 13, “Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing”, in The Fishing Gazette, page 459:
- Bob Munchy, as a forlorn hope, once threw his clodding leister at a drowning man, floating down the Yarrow in a high flood, and hauled him out with the lyams unharmed.
Derived terms
References
- lyam in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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