Dictionary

lyam en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈlaɪəm/

Etymology

See leam.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) A leash.
   • 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. 1896 June 13, “Days and Nights of Salmon Fishing”, in The Fishing Gazette, page 459:
   • My Hound then in my Lyam, I by the Woodmans art Forecast, where I may lodge the goodly Hie-palm'd Hart, 1630, Michael Drayton, The Muses Elizium, The Sixt Nimphall, page 60:

Forms

Deriveds

lyam-hound