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 1865. Daily Telegraph, 20 June. M. Van Grootvens finished the day's sport by winning a steeplechase with Vixen—this being the second stake, together £1,000 I hear, which he has landed with the mare since he purchased her of Mr. Roe.

1883. Daily Telegraph, 29 Sept. I'd make a similar wager and be more sure of landing the stake.

1891. Licensed Vict. Gaz., 20 March. Had the French filly landed, what a shout would have arisen from the ring!

To land out, verb. phr. (American).—To decamp.

1882. McCabe, New York, xxiii. 393. When he was tired of me he landed out, an' I've never seen him since.

To see how the land lies, verb. phr. (colloquial).—To see how matters stand. See quot. 1690.

1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Landlord. How lies the land? How stands the reckoning?

1725. New Cant. Dict., s.v.

1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.

Who has any land in Appleby, phr. (old).—See quot.

1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Landlord, Who has any lands in Appleby? a Question askt the Man at whose Door the Glass stands long. [Also Grose (1785)].

Land-broker, subs. (American thieves').—An undertaker.—Matsell (1859).

Land-carack, subs. (old).—A mistress.

1629. Davenant, Albovine, iii. Grim. I must be furnished too. Cuny. With a mistress? Grim. Yes, enquire me out some old land-carack.

Land-crab, subs. (American).—A landsman.

Landed Estate, subs. phr. (common).—1. The grave; Darby's dyke (q.v.).

2. (common).—Dirt in the nails.

Landies, subs. (Winchester College).—Gaiters. [From tradespeople—Landy and Currell—who supplied them.—Notions].

Landlady. To hang the Landlady, verb. phr. (common).—To decamp without payment; to moonshine; to stand off the tailor.

Landlubber (also Land-leaper and Land-loper), subs. (old).—A vagabond; one who fled the country for crime or debt: also (nautical) a landsman, in varying degrees of contempt, for incapacity in general or uselessness as sailors in particular. Fr. un jus de cancre; un terrien; or un failli chien de terrien.

1362. Langland, Piers Plowman, B, xv. 207 . For he ne is noȝte in lolleres, ne in lande-leperes hermytes.

1592. Newton, Tryall of a Man's owne Selfe [Nares]. Whether the governors of the commonwealth have suffered palmesters, fortune-tellers, stage-players, sawce-boxes, enterluders, puppit players, loyterers, vagabonds, landleapers, and such like cozening make-shifts.

1606. Lyte, Dodoene, 348. Wherfore these landleapers, koges etc.

1621. Burton, Anatomy (ed. 1893), i. 367. Let Mariners learn Astronomy; Merchants' Factors study Arithmetick Landleapers Geography.

1622. Bacon, Henry VII. [ed. Spedding], vi. 133. Thirdly he had been from his childhood such a wanderer or (as the King called it) such a landloper, as it was extreme hard to hunt out his nest and parents.

1650. Howell, Familiar Letters [Nares]. You are sure where to find me, wheras I was a landloper as the Dutchman saith, a wanderer, and subject to incertain removes, and short sojourns in divers places before.

1671. Shadwell, Fair Quaker of Deal, i. And the landlubber (for he is no sailor) had the impudence to tell me he would not be etc.