lyam

English

Etymology

See leam.

Noun

lyam (plural lyams)

1. (obsolete) A leash.
   • 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.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “lyam”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Almy, Lamy, Maly, Myla, YAML, amyl, myal

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Noun

lyam

1. sea, ocean