landlouper
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Dutch landloper (literally “land-runner”). Merged with native English landleaper, from Middle English landeleper, londlepar, lande-lepere, landelepper, equivalent to land + leaper.
Noun
landlouper (plural landloupers)
Related terms
Translations
vagabond — see vagabond
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for landlouper in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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