LAG, LAGGARD, LAGGING – adjectives
– BELAGGED left behind, outstripped in walking …1795 Eng. dial.
– LAG * belated, lingering behind, tardy, lagging …1568
– LAGGARD lagging, hanging back, loitering, slow …1702
– ON THE DAIDLE behindhand, lagging behind …1915 Sc.
– SLOWBACK † sluggish, laggard …1619
lag, laggard, lagging – person
– AGTEROS a plodder, a dawdler, one who lags behind …L19 S. Afr. sl.
– DAGGLER a laggard, an idler, a lounger …1825 Sc.
– DAIGLER a laggard, an idler, a lounger …1825 Sc.
– LAG a laggard, a loiterer, one who lingers or falls behind …1866 Sc.
– LAGGARD one who lags behind; a lingerer, a loiterer …1808
– LAG-LAST one who lags or lingers to the very last …1830
– SLOW-BELLY a lazy, idle, or indolent person; a sluggard, a laggard …1607
– SLOWCOME a slow person; a lagging, stupid, lazy fellow; a lazy, sluggish fellow; an idler …1882 Eng. dial.
– TAG-HEELS a tagalong; a sycophant; a parasite; a hanger-on; somebody who always follows along behind; one who lags behind …1965 Amer. dial.
– TAG-TAIL a person who attaches himself to another against the will of the latter; a dependent, sycophant, toady, hanger-on, parasite; one who always follows along; one who lags behind …1864
– TAIL a tagalong; a hanger-on; one who lags behind …1965 Amer. dial.
– TAIL-BEHIND. a tagalong; a hanger-on; one who lags behind …1965 Amer. dial.
– TAIL END a tagalong; a hanger-on; one who lags behind …1965 Amer. dial.
– TAILER a tagalong; a hanger-on; one who lags behind; a follower …1942 Amer. dial.
– TAILGATE a tagalong; a hanger-on; one who lags behind …1965 Amer. dial.
– TAIL-TAGGER a tagalong; a hanger-on; one who lags behind …1965 Amer. dial.
– TAIL-TWISTER a tagalong; a hanger-on; one who lags behind …1965 Amer. dial.
– TAR BUCKET a tagalong; a hanger-on; one who lags behind …1915 Amer. dial.
– WAFFLER a weak, indecisive, vacillating person; one who hesitates; a ditherer; a laggard …1819 Sc. & Eng. dial.
lag, laggard, lagging – verbs
– DRAG THE CHAIN to be slow to perform some task, to lag behind …1912 Aust. sl.
– LAGGARD to play the laggard …1865
– LAGGER † to lag, to linger, to loiter …c1620
LAGOON – nouns
– BRANCH a lagoon or slough; a body of still water off to the side of a river or lake …1965 Amer. dial.
LAID-BACK – adjectives
– CAJ casual, laid-back, conducive to a good time …1990 Amer. sl.
– CAS casual, laid-back, conducive to a good time …1990 Amer. sl.
– CAZH casual, laid-back, conducive to a good time …1981 Amer. campus sl.
– CHILLING calm, cool, laid back …1987 Amer. sl., esp. Black usage
– CHILLY calm, cool, or laid back …1971 US sl.
– KAZH casual, laid-back, conducive to a good time …1981 Amer. campus sl.
LAIR – nouns
– CABBAGE †* a den or lair …1567
– KENNEL a the hole or lair of the fox …1735
– SCRETHY-HOLE † a lair …1824 Eng. dial.
lair – verbs
– KENNEL of a fox or other wild beast: to retreat into a lair …1552
LAITY – nouns
– LAY † the lay people, laity; also, a layman …c1330
– LEALTY †* laity …1548
laity – person
– LAYMAN a man who is not a cleric; one of the laity …1432-50
LAKE – adjectives
– LAKISH † abounding in lakes or pools; inhabiting a lake …1590
lake – nouns
– BINNEWATER a small lake …1901 Amer. dial.
– LAKELET a small lake …1796
– LAY † a lake, a pool …a1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– MERE a small lake or sheet of standing water; a pond …1788 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– MERE-SIDE the margin of a lake …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– PANI a sheet of water, a lake …1923 Sc.
– RAKES line of white foam on lakes, often noticeable before a storm …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– SPLASH any form of water, eg. a river, a lake, a sea, a bath …1940s US Black sl.
LAMB – nouns (also see SHEEP)
– TARGET a leg and breast of lamb combined …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
LAME – adjectives
– BOISTOUS † halting, lame
– CLAUDICANT † lame, limping, halting …1624 obs.
– GAM lame, crooked, deformed; disabled, injured, sore; of an eye: wavering, uncertain …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– GAME lame, crippled, crooked, deformed; disabled, injured, sore; of an eye: wavering, uncertain …1790 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– GAMMY lame; disabled through injury or pain; injured …1879 Eng. dial. & sl.
– GAMY lame, crippled …M19 sl.
– GIMPY lame in the leg …c1930 sl., orig. US
– HALT lame; crippled; limping …c893 arch. & literary
– HAMBLE-SHANKED † maimed or lame in the leg ..1661
– HIRPLE lame, limp, tender-footed …B1900 Eng. dial.
– HOPPER-HIPPED † lame in the hip …1500-20
– LEFT-HANDED † crippled, lame, defective …1629
– LIMPY lame; crippled …1955 Amer. dial.
– PALIE defective, deformed, lame …1825 Sc.
– PALLIE adj. lame, dislocated, distorted …Bk1903 Sc.
– PAULIE, PAWLIE adj. lame, dislocated, distorted …Bk1903 Sc.
– QUEER-GAMMED lame, crippled …L18 sl.
– RICKETY weak, ill-nourished; lame, suffering from rickets …1896 Sc. & Eng. dial.
lame – person
– BILT a lame person …1825 Sc.
– BILTIE a lame person …1825 Sc.
– DECRIPPIT a cripple, a lame person; one who is decrepit …1887 Eng. dial.
– GAMMY † a lame or crippled person …1889 UK sl.
– GEEHUNCLE a lame or crippled person …1927 US sl.
– GIMICK a lame person; a cripple …1924 US tramps’ sl.
– GIMP a lame person or one unable to walk; a cripple; a crippled beggar …1894 sl., orig. US
– GIMPY a lame person; a cripple; often used as a nickname, or a term of contempt …1895 colloq.
– HAINCHER a lame person …1887 Sc.
– HENCHER a lame person …1887 Sc.
– HILCHY a nickname given to a lame person …1892 Sc.
– HINCHER a lame person …Bk1876 Sc.
– HINKI a person who limps in walking …Bk1866 Sc.
– HIP-AT-THE-CLINCH a person with a limp …Bk1997 Ulster sl.
– HIPPETY-CLINCH – lame person …1890 Eng. dial.
– HIPPETY-HINCHER, HIPPITY-HINCHER – a lame person …1887 Sc.
– HIPPLE one who walks badly or with a limp …1818 Sc.
– HIPPLETY-CLINCH a lame or halting person …Bk1893 Eng. dial.
– HIPSHOT NANCY a lame person …Bk1971 Boonville California jargon
– HIRPLE a lame person; a cripple …1894 chiefly Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– HIRPLE DODDIE a limping person …1957 Sc.
– HIRPLE-DICK a limping person …1894 Sc.
– HIRPLE-DIRD a limping person …c1928 Sc.
– HOP-AND-GO-KICK one who walks lame …c1860 sl.
– HOPPING-GILES one who limps; a lame person …B1900 Eng. dial.
– LAMESTER a lame person; a cripple …1639
– LAMETER, LAMITER a lame person; a cripple …1804 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– LAMIGER a lame person; a cripple …1829 Eng. dial.
– LAMMIGER a lame person, a cripple …1847 Eng. dial.
– LAMPSIE a nickname for a slightly lame person …1928 Sc.
– LIMPING JESUS a lame person …19C sl.
– MR. HOPKINS a lame or limping man …L18 sl.
– REEVER a man or animal in poor condition; a lame man, horse, etc. …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
lame – verbs
– BELAY to fall upon with blows, to lame …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– BILT to go lame; to walk with crutches …Bk1898 Sc.
– CLAUDICATE †* to limp, to be lame, to halt …1623
– CRIMPLE † to be incurved, or drawn together; hence, to stand or walk lame from this or similar cause; to hobble, to limp; to move with pain or stiffness …1398 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– HALT to be lame, to walk lame, to limp …c825 arch.
– HAMBLE to walk feebly or awkwardly; to walk lame; to limp; to stumble …1808 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– HIMPLE † to limp, to hobble, to go lame …1656 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– HIRPLE to limp, to walk lamely or in a hobbling manner …c1450 chiefly Scot & N. Eng. dial.
– MAIN † to lame, to maim …1703
– TORFLE to founder, to go lame; to decline in health, to pine away, to languish; to lose interest in or draw back from an undertaking …1575-6 Eng. dial.
LAMED – adjectives
– LAMPSED † lamed, disabled, injured …1746 Eng. dial.
LAMENESS – nouns
– HAINCH a halt or limp in one’s walk; lameness …1887 Sc.
– LAME lameness …1926 Amer. dial.
– MEANING an indication of pain or lameness …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
LAMENT – adjectives
– LAMENTFUL * charged with lament; mournful …1876
lament – nouns
– LAMENTADO †* lament, lamentation …1618
– QUIRITATION †* a complaint, a lament …1634
lament – verbs
– BEMOURN † to mourn over; to lament, to bewail …a1000
– BLOWTER † to blubber; to weep effusively; to wail or lament with many tears …?16C
– CARE † to mourn, to lament …a1300
– COLLACHRYMATE †* to weep or lament with, or in sympathy with others; to commiserate …1593
– GLOPPEN † to lament or mourn …B1900
– GREET to weep, cry, lament, grieve …OE
– JAMMER to lament; to cry aloud fretfully; to fret; to whimper; to complain; to grumble …1774 Ireland
– LACHRYMATE † to weep, lament, bewail …1623
– LAMENTATE to lament, to complain …1936 Amer. dial.
– MAKE SITE †* to lament, to mourn …1338
– QUAIN †* to lament, to bewail, to bemoan …a1300
– RETURN BY WEEPING CROSS to regret deeply some undertaking, and repent of it; to be in a state of lamentation; to fail; to suffer defeat …1659
– ROAR to bewail, to lament over …c1734 Sc.
– SING SOL-FA to lament …1566
– SING SORROW to lament …1748
– SING THE BLACK SANCTUS † to lament …1578
– SING WOE to lament …1818
– TAKE ON to grieve, to lament …1876 Sc.
– ULLAGONE to wail or lament loudly …1828 Anglo-Irish
– ULULATE to howl or wail; to lament loudly …1623
– YAMMER to lament, to mourn; to utter cries of lamentation or distress, to wail; to cry aloud fretfully; to whine, to whimper, to fret …1481 obs. exc. Sc. & Eng. dial.
– YAMOUR to lament; to cry aloud fretfully; to fret; to whimper; to complain; to grumble …1774 Sc.
– YIMMER to lament; to cry aloud fretfully; to fret; to whimper; to complain; to grumble …1774 N. Ireland
– YOMER to lament; to cry aloud fretfully; to fret; to whimper; to complain; to grumble …1774 Sc.
lament – interjections
– OY GEVALT! used for expressing a lament, protest, dismay, or delight …1968 US (Yiddish)
– SIRS, THE DAY! an exclamation of surprise or lament …1887 Eng. dial.
LAMENTABLE – adjectives
– BEMOANABLE † deplorable, lamentable …1611
– BEWAILABLE proper to be bewailed; lamentable …1611
– EARNFUL † causing anxiety or yearning; anxious; full of longing desire; sorrowful, lamentable, melancholy, sad …c1500 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– ERNEFUL sad, lamentable, pitiable; sorrowful, melancholy …1691 Eng. dial.
– ERNFUL † sad, lamentable, pitiable; sorrowful, melancholy …1679 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– IMPLORABLE † lamentable; deplorable …1535
– LACHRYMABLE † lamentable; meet for tears or weeping …1490
– LACRYMABLE † lamentable; meet for tears or weeping …1490
LAMENTATION – adjectives
– LAMENTATIOUS, LAMENTACIOUS †* marked by lamentation …1532
– PLORABUND †* making great lamentation …B1900
– LAMENTATIOUS †* marked by lamentation …1387
– LAMENTATORY †* marked by lamentation …1576
lamentation – nouns
– CARE † utterance of sorrow; lamentation, mourning …a1000
– DIRGIE a dirge; a song of lamentation …1867 Sc.
– EJULATION † wailing, lamentation …a1619
– IMPLORATION †* deploring; lamentation …1607
– JEREMIAD a lamentation; a writing or speech in a strain of grief or stress; a doleful complaint; a complaining tirade; a lugubrious effusion …1780
– LAMACHEELIE a noisy lamentation, a loud wail, an outcry …1925 Sc.
– LAMACHREE a noisy lamentation, a loud wail, an outcry …1925 Sc.
– LAMENTADO †* lament, lamentation …1618
– MEAN a moan, a lamentation; a complaint …1747 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– ROARING weeping, lamentation …1772 Sc.
– ULLAGONE a cry of lamentation; a wail; a funeral lament …1828 Anglo-Irish
– ULULATION a howl or wail; a cry of lamentation …1599
– ULULU a wailing cry; a wail of lamentation …1854
– VAGIT † a cry, lamentation, wail …1627
– WAILMENT † wailing, lamentation …1593
– WAIMING † lamentation …a1300
– WALAWAY a lamentation …1822 Sc.
– WALLY-WAEING a lamentation …1822 Sc.
– WALLY-WALLYING lamentation …1821 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– WALY-WALYING lamentation …1821 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– WAMMING † lamentation …a1300
– YAMMER a cry of lamentation, a wail; a loud outcry, shout, yell; lamentation, querulous utterance; a whimpering, a continuous loud complaining; grumbling …1500-20 Sc. & Eng. dial.
lamentation – interjections
– OHONE! a Scottish and Irish exclamation of lamentation …c1480
LAMENTING – adjectives
– GEMENT † groaning, lamenting …1656
– ICHABODIAN regretful, lamenting …1887
– ULULATIVE † wailing, lamenting …1490
– YAUPING crying in despair, lamenting …1787 Eng. dial.
LAMP – nouns
– BITCH an improvised lamp consisting of a twisted rag wick in a container of grease …1904 Amer. dial.
– LAMPADARY * a cluster of lamps; a candelabrum …1885
– MATCH † the wick of a candle or lamp …1377
– ŐLLIE-COLLIE an oil lamp …1892 Sc.
lamp – person
– LAMPERS those who call each day and keep in perfect order the lamps of the household …1886 US colloq.
lamp – verbs
– QUIRK of a lamp: to flicker …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
LANCE – verbs
– ELANCE † to launch; to cast or throw a lance or dart …1718 obs. or arch.
LANCING – nouns
– LAUNCH † the act of lancing; a prick …1558
LAND – adjectives
– CALLOW of land: bare …1677
– GAINABLE †* of land: cultivable …1480
– LABOURSOME † of land: difficult of cultivation …1604
– LACKLAND of persons: having no land …1887
– LAND-BRED brought up on land …1591
– LANDISH † belonging to the land or country; native …a1300
– LAND-STEAD provided with landed property ….1688 Colonial usage
– OMY † of land: mellow …1669 Eng. dial.
– PASTINATE † of land: dug, prepared for planting …c1420
– SEEPY of land: constantly damp …1859 Amer. dial.
land – adverbs
– LAND-GATE † by land …1536 Sc.
– LANDWAYS by land …1792 Sc.
land – nouns
– ACRE † a piece of tilled or arable land; a field …c975
– ACRE-LAND † ploughed or arable land …a1400
– DEVIL’S HALF ACRE a rough or unworkable piece of land …1968 Amer. dial.
– DEVIL’S HOMESTEAD a rough or unworkable piece of land …1969 Amer. dial.
– EARTH-HUNGER desire to possess land, greed of territory …1856
– ENTS † the ends of lands …1796 Eng. dial.
– FALLOW † a piece of ploughed land; also, collectively, ploughed land in general, arable land …c1300
– GIBBER-COUNTRY arid land covered with boulders or stones …1894 Aust. sl.
– GOBACK LAND land once cultivated but long since neglected …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– HALSE † a narrow neck of land or channel of water …c1470
– HARD dry land …1950 Amer. dial.
– HASKINESS dryness and insipidity of food; the parched condition of land …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LABEL † a narrow piece of land …1577-87
– LAIRDOCRACY lairds as forming a ruling class …1848 Sc.
– LAND-GATE 1. † way or passage over land …1637 Sc.
2. † (usually as ‘landgate’) a long and narrow piece of land …1726
– LAND-LINE the outline of the land against sky and sea …1875
– LAND-METE † a measurement of land …1608
– LAND-WAY † a way or path over land …c1250
– MANISHMENT the method of cultivating and nourishing the land; manure and other fertilizers …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– NECKLAND † a neck or narrow strip of land …1598
– PAFFLE a small parcel of land …1818 Sc.
– PARCEL GROUND † a ‘parcel’ of land …1632
– PARCELMENT * division into parcels of land …1847
– PARTICLE † a small portion of land …1839 Sc.
– POFFLE a small parcel of land …1818 Sc.
– QUILLET † a small plot or narrow strip of land …1533-4 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– RAND † a border, margin, or brink of land …a1300 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– RANGE a strip of land; a border …1865 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– RANGLE COMMON a piece of common land over which anyone may wander at will …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– RAP a thin strip of land; the crop grown on such a strip …1884 Eng. dial.
– SCOPE a tract of land, woods, etc. …1895 Amer. dial.
– SCRIBE a long and narrow strip of arable land …Bk1904 Eng. dial.
– TAIL † a piece or ‘slip’ of irregularly bounded land jutting out from a larger piece …1472 Sc.
– THREAP-GROUND land the ownership of which is disputed …1825 Eng. dial.
– TING a tongue of land jutting into the sea …Bk1905 Sc.
– YERD-HUNGER voracious desire for land …1823 Sc.
land – person
– ARPENTATOR † a measurer or surveyor of land …1664
– BANANA a person opposed to all land development, esp. near residential areas…1991 Amer. political sl.
– BEACH MARINER a landsman pretending familiarity with nautical affairs …Bk1958 Eng. sl.
– FACTOR † one who has the charge and manages the affairs of an estate; the manager of a landed estate who collects the rents, lets the lands, etc.; a bailiff; a land-agent or land-steward …1561 obs. exc. Sc.
– HADLAND † a humorous title for one who formerly owned land and has lost it …1592
– LAAN’S-MAN one who earns his livelihood on land, in contradistinction to a sailor or fisherman; a landman …Bk1866 Sc.
– LACKLAND one who has no land or no landed possessions; one who rules over no territory …1622
– LAIRD a lord; a landed proprietor; a land owner, a yeoman …c1450
– LAIRDESS a laird’s wife …1863 Sc.
– LAIRDIE a petty laird …1700s Sc.
– LAND BIRD a landlubber; a person having no experience at sea …1827 US nautical sl.
– LAND-COUPER one who buys and sells land …1830 Sc.
– LAND CRAB a landlubber’ a person having no experience at sea …1861 US nautical sl.
– LAND-DOCTOR a professional valuer of land …1808 Eng. dial.
– LANDLOOKER a land agent or speculator …1840 Amer. dial.
– LAND-LOPER † a land-lubber; a freshwater seaman; a landsman …1694
– LAND-LUBBER a sailor’s term of contempt for a landsman …a1700
– LANDMAN 1. † one who lives or has his business on land, as opposed to a ‘seaman’ …1480 now rare or obs.
2. † a man having landed property …1562
– LANDMASTER n. a proprietor of land, a landowner …1795 Sc.
– LAND-METER † a land-measurer or surveyor …1582
– LAND-METSTER a land-measurer, a surveyor …1714 Sc.
– LAND-METTER a land-measurer, a surveyor …1726 Sc.
– LAND-SHARK * land-grabber …1857
– LANDSMAN one who lives or has his business on land, as opposed to a ‘seaman’ …1666-7
– LEVEL-LANDER a dweller on level land …1864 nonce word
– MAILANDER one who rents land as a farmer …1714 Sc.
– OLD JOHN COE a man with large land holdings …1967 Amer. dial.
land – verbs
– CALIFORNICATE to overdevelop the land …20C Amer. sl.
– LAND to bestow land upon …1624 obs. nonce usage
– MANNER to manure; to prepare land for crops …Bk1905 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– PEACOCK † to acquire the best pieces of land in such a way that the surrounding land is useless to others … Aust. sl.
LANDED – nouns
– ACREOCRACY the landed interest …Bk1921 sl.
LANDING – nouns
– DESS a step; a small landing-place …1838 Sc.
– LANDAGE † landing, coming ashore …1470-85
LANDLADY – person
– HEAD HEN a landlady …1944 US Black sl.
– LANDPROP a landlady or landlord …1936 US Black sl.
– MARM POOSEY a flashily dressed public house landlady …L19 sl.
– MARM-PUSS a flashily dressed public house landlady …L19 sl.
– MAT a public house or lodging-house landlady …M19 sl.
– MIVEY, MIVVY, MIVY the landlady of a lodging-house …L19 sl.
– MOLL OF THE CRIB a landlady, a proprietress …1865 UK criminals’ sl.
– MOLL OF THE DRUM a landlady, a proprietress …1865 UK criminals’ sl.
– MORT OF THE BOOZING KEN † a tavern landlady …1741 UK criminals’ sl.
– MOT, MOTT, MOTTE a public house or lodging-house landlady …1858 UK sl.
– MOTHER a public house landlady, or similar …1833 sl.
– MOTT OF THE KEN the landlady of a criminal lodging-house …1852 UK sl.
– SAW a mean landlady; the landlady of a cheap rooming house …Bk1945 jive usage
– WARDIN †* a landlady, a hostess …1493
landlady – person, other
– HIDDEN TREASURE a landlady’s husband who, rarely seen, does much work below stairs …20C jocular
LANDLORD – nouns
– LANDLORDRY †* landlords as a class …1597-8
landlord – person
– BALEBOOS a landlord …Bk1982 Jewish
– LANDPROP a landlady or landlord …1936 US Black sl.
– MASTER a landlord, a laird …Bk1905 Sc.
– OMEE, OMEY, OMI a landlord …M19 sl.
– OMER a landlord …M19 sl.
– RACK-RENTER a landlord who exacts a rack rent or rack rents …1843
– RAMROD a landlord …M19 sl.
– SHARK one who enriches himself by taking advantage of the necessities of others; a rapacious usurer; an extortionate landlord; a financial swindler …1713
LANDMARK – nouns
– BOUND † a landmark indicating the limit of an estate or territory …c1275
– BOUNDER † a boundary, limit, landmark …1505 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– MARCH † a boundary mark; a landmark …1513
– MEAR † a boundary, limit; a landmark …c1200 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– MEAR-STANG † a landmark …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
landmark – verbs
– MARCH † to mark the boundaries of with landmarks …1541 Sc.
LANDMINE – nouns
– DEVIL EGG a landmine …Amer. World War I sl.
– EGG a bomb; a mine; a depth charge …Amer. World War I sl.
LANDSCAPE, LANDSCAPING – nouns
– GARNITURE natural objects, as trees, etc., as ornaments of the landscape …1684
– SCAPE a landscape; a portion of ground …1788 Sc. & Eng. dial.
landscape, landscaping – person
– HACK-AND-WHACK a landscaper who massacres a garden that was in good shape …Bk2006 Amer. sl.
– LANDSCAPE-WORKER † one who paints landscapes …1598
– XERISCAPER a person who xeriscapes, or landscapes an area in such a way as to minimize its need for irrigation, esp. by using plants and features suited to a dry climate …1988
LANDSLIDE – adjectives
– LANDSLIPPY characterized by landslips or landslides …1893
landslide – nouns
– BREAK-A-LOOSE a landslide …1970 Amer. dial.
– CALVE a fall of earth, a landslip, a bulging or falling in of a wall, etc. …1873 Eng. dial.
– CAVE a landslide …1965 Amer. dial.
– CAVE-IN a landslide …1957 Amer. dial.
– CAVE-OFF a landslide …1965 Amer. dial.
– EARTHFALL a fall of earth or a landslide
– EARTHSLIDE a landslide …1942 Amer. dial.
– LAND-RUSH † landslip …1549
– LANDSLIP the sliding down of a mass of land on a mountain or cliff side; land which has so fallen; a landslide …1679
LANE – adjectives
– LANEY pert. to a lane …1876 nonce word
lane – nouns
– BATER a lane leading to a high road …Bk1898 Eng. dial.
– DRONG a narrow lane or passage …L18 Eng. Dial.
– ENTRY-MOUTH the end or entrance of a narrow lane or passage …1856 N. Ireland
– GULLY a narrow passage between buildings; a lane or alley …1849 Indian English
– GUT on land: a narrow passage between two declivities; hence, a narrow passage or lane of any kind …1615
– LANE-END a lane …1891 Eng. dial.
– LANEING a lane …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– LANKIT a short lane …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– OCCUPATION ROAD a by-road or lane …1895 Eng. dial.
– RUELLE in France, a small street; a lane, an alley …B1900
– TEWER a narrow lane or passage; an alley …1869 Eng. dial.
– TUER a narrow lane or passage; an alley …1869 Eng. dial.
– VENNEL a narrow lane, passage, or thoroughfare in a town or city; an alley or wynd …1435 chiefly Sc.
– VINNAL a narrow alley or lane between houses …1702 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– VINNEL an alley; a narrow lane or passage …1853 Sc.
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