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\LAND-loh-per\
noun
1. a wanderer, vagrant, or adventurer.
Quotes
…I was a landloper, as the Dutchman saith, a wanderer, and subject to incertain removes, and short sojourns in divers places before.
-- , James Howell to Dr. Fr. Mansell, March 5, 1618, in Epistolae Ho-Elianae, Volume I, 1645
Origin
Landloper comes from the Dutch terms land, "land," and loopen, "to run." It entered English in the mid-1500s.

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