land guard

A river fence or bulwark. *land-herd, s. A herd, which feeds on land. land-hunger, s. The lust of conquest; greed for the acquisition of land. [EARTH-HUNGER.] land-ice, s. 1. Ice operating as yet on land in the form of a moving glacier, as distinguished from that in the form of icebergs, ., in the sea. 2. A field or floe of ice stretching along the land lying between two headlands. land-league, s. [LEAGUE.] land-leaguer, s. [LEAGUER.] *land-lurch, v . t . To steal land from. (Warner: Albions England, bk. ix., ch. xliv.)