lyam

Noun

lyam (plural lyams)

1. (obsolete) A leash.
   • My Hound then in my Lyam, I by the Woodmans art
     Forecast, where I may lodge the goodly Hie-palm'd Hart,1630, Michael Drayton, The Muses Elizium, The Sixt Nimphall, page 60
   • 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