landlouper

noun

1. A vagabond; a vagrant.

   archaic

   Bands of landloupers had been employed[…]

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Dutch landloper (literally “land-runner”). Merged with native English landleaper; equivalent to land + leaper.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry landlouper (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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