lyam-hound

[ lahy-uhm-hound ]

nounArchaic.
  1. a bloodhound.

Origin of lyam-hound

1
1520–30; obsolete lyam leash (<Middle French liem ≪ Latin ligāmen a band, tie, equivalent to ligā(re) to tie + -men noun suffix) + hound1

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