[Russian гиманъ estuary; applied to the salt-marshes at the mouths of the Dnieper (cf. Turkish liman harbor, mod. Gr. λίμανι, ? Gr. λιμήν).] (See quots.)
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Liman, a shallow narrow lagoon, at the mouth of rivers, where salt is made.
1859. Rawlinson, Herodotus, III. IV. liii. 48, note. The word in the Greek (ἔλος) is rather ‘marsh’ than ‘lake,’ and the liman of the Dniepr is in point of fact so shallow as almost to deserve the name.
1879. Webster, Suppl., Liman, the deposit of slime at the mouth of a river.
