Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who wanders about the country: same as
landleaper .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
landlouper .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
landlouper .
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Examples
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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.
Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret Annie Roe Carr
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You never would go with a landloper while sailors are on shore
Schooner Fred Dunbar 1932
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The luck that the landloper depended on for descending into the mysterious world of medieval Cairo is always about to run out.
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