lyam
English
Etymology
See leam.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈlaɪəm/
Noun
lyam (plural lyams)
- (obsolete) A leash.
- 1630, Michael Drayton, The Muses Elizium, The Sixt Nimphall, page 60:
- My Hound then in my Lyam, I by the Woodmans art
Forecast, where I may lodge the goodly Hie-palm'd Hart,
- 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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