lyam

See leam.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪəm/

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Drayton to this entry?)

• lyam-hound

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

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

lyam m

1. sea, ocean