lymphad
(ˈlɪmfæd)
Also 7 lum-, lime-, lymfad.
[corruption of Gael. longfhada: see langfad.]
A one-masted galley propelled by oars. Now only Hist.; and Her. borne as a charge in the arms of some Scottish families.
| 1536 [see langfad]. 1608 in Burt's Lett. N. Scotl. (1818) II. App. 238 Destroyit the haill gallayis, lumfaddis. 1641 Sc. Acts. Chas. I (1814) V. 442/1 The nomber of boittis, or Lymfadis within the pairtis of this kingdome lying opposite to Irland. 1814 Scott Diary 12 Aug., He [Earl of Orkney] bears the royal arms..quarterly, with a lymphad or galley, the ancient arms of the county. 1818 ― Rob Roy xxix, Our loch ne'er saw the Campbell lymphads. 1864 Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. ix. 46 The Lymphad is borne by the Duke of Argyll and the Marquis of Abercorn. 1888 Sat. Rev. 25 Feb. 221 The MacDonalds can hardly go over in lymphads to Ulster and butcher another Shane O'Neil. |