landflood

English

Alternative forms

land-flood

Etymology

land +‎ flood

Noun

landflood (plural landfloods)

1. (archaic) flood; inundation
   • 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:

     in a county where the king had before no footing , awakened all their jealousies and apprehensions of the affections of Kent and all other places; and looked like a land-flood , that might roll they knew not how far ; so that there needed no importunate solicitation to provide a remedy against this growing evil

Translations

inundation

• Finnish: tulva (fi)

References

• “landflood”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.