landlouper
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch landloper (literally “land-runner”). Merged with native English landleaper; equivalent to land + leaper.
Noun
landlouper (plural landloupers)
- A vagabond; a vagrant.
- Synonym: landleaper
- 1856, John Lothrop Moltey, The Rise of the Dutch Republic, page 594:
- Bands of landloupers had been employed […]
Related terms
Translations
vagabond — see vagabond
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “landlouper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)