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English
Etymology
See leam.
Pronunciation
Noun
lyam (plural lyams)
- (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.
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Tocharian B
Noun
lyam m
- sea, ocean