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.

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1536.  [see LANGFAD].

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1608.  in Burt’s Lett. N. Scotl. (1818), II. App. 238. Destroyit the haill gallayis, lumfaddis.

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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.

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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. Ibid. (1818), Rob Roy, xxix. Our loch ne’er saw the Campbell lymphads.

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1864.  Boutell, Her. Hist. & Pop., ix. 46. The Lymphad is borne by the Duke of Argyll and the Marquis of Abercorn.

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1888.  Sat. Rev., 25 Feb., 221. The MacDonalds can hardly go over in lymphads to Ulster and butcher another Shane O’Neil.

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