lyam

plural lyams

1. obsoleteA 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

   1 more example

   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