landflood

plural landfloods · alternative land-flood

1. archaicflood; inundation

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   in a county where the king had before no footing , awakened all their jealousies and apprehensions of the affections of Kent and all other places; and looked like a land-flood , that might roll they knew not how far ; so that there needed no importunate solicitation to provide a remedy against this growing evil

   1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater