landloper

American  

[land-loh-per] / ˈlændˌloʊ pər /

Also landlouper

noun

1. a wanderer, vagrant, or adventurer.

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landloper British  

/ ˈlændˌləʊpə /

noun

1. a vagabond or vagrant

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Etymology

Origin of landloper

1540–50; < Dutch: literally, land-runner. See land, lope, -er ¹

Example Sentences

The child’s name is Lyra Belacqua, and she’s being sought by the landloper police.

From Literature

She’s a landloper child, and she’s in our care, and there she’s going to stay.

From Literature

“What we do know is that they do it with the help of the landloper police and the clergy. Every power on land is helping ’em.

From Literature

Then the gusts increased, and by fits blowed all at once from several quarters, yet we neither settled nor braided up close our sails, but only let fly the sheets, not to go against the master of the ship's direction; and thus having let go amain, lest we should spend our topsails, or the ship's quick-side should lie in the water and she be overset, we lay by and run adrift; that is, in a landloper's phrase, we temporized it.

From Project Gutenberg

Uncle Henry believed Toby knew exactly where the line lay, for he had been a landloper, or timber-runner in this vicinity when the original survey was made, forty-odd years before.

From Project Gutenberg