lyam

English

Etymology

See leam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪəm/

Noun

lyam (plural lyams)

1. (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

• lyam-hound

References

• “lyam”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

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

Tocharian B

Noun

lyam m

1. sea, ocean