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ˈland-flood
Overflowing of land by water from a swollen river or other inland water.
1390Gower Conf. III. 126 Februar, which..with lond⁓flodes in his rage At fordes letteth the passage. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §54 Grasse, that the lande-floudde renneth ouer, is verye ylle for shepe, bycause of the sande and fylthe that stycketh vppon it. 1646Fuller Wounded Consc. (1841) 303 Like a land-flood, quickly come, quickly gone. 1720De Foe Capt. Singleton ix. (1840) 166 The rivers were..swelled with the landfloods. 1833Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 181 The land-floods which accompany earthquakes.
attrib.1852J. Wiggins Embanking 69 Any..rush of tidal or land-flood waters against the bank.
b. fig.
1579Fenton Guicciard. vii. (1599) 296 The furie of Almaines entring Italie as a landflood. a1628Preston New Covt. (1630) 83 It is but a Pond, it is but a land-floud, the spring of comfort belongs only to the Saints. 1830Scott Demonol. viii. 242 Some of the country clergy were carried away by the landflood of superstition. |