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plural lyams
(obsolete) A leash. quotations
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