land-loper

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

(Dutch, landlooper.) A vagrant; one who strolls about the country.--Bailey's Dict. Applied by sailors to landsmen by way of ridicule.


Such travellers as these may be termed land-lopers, as the Dutchman saith, rather than travellers.--Howell's Foreign Travel, (1642.)

He never thought how much easier it was for one of these land-lopers to make a city in the woods on paper, than to be at the trouble of cutting the timber all down.--A Week in Wall Street, p. 119.

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