landlouper

English

Alternative forms

• landleaper
• landloper

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch landloper (literally “land-runner”). Merged with native English landleaper, from Middle English landeleper, londlepar, lande-lepere, landelepper, equivalent to land +‎ leaper.

Noun

landlouper (plural landloupers)

1. A vagabond; a vagrant.
   • 1856, John Lothrop Moltey, The Rise of the Dutch Republic, page 594

     Bands of landloupers had been employed […]

Related terms

• lope
• interloper

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)