Definitions for Lammas

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Lammas Lam·mas

Spelling: [lam-uh s]

IPA: /ˈlæm əs/

Lammas is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 73 anagrams from letters in Lammas (aalmms).

Definitions for Lammas

noun

1. a former festival in England, held on August 1, in which bread made from the first harvest of corn was blessed.
2. a festival (Feast of St. Peter's Chains) observed by Roman Catholics on August 1, in memory of St. Peter's imprisonment and his miraculous deliverance.

Origin of Lammas

before 900; Middle English Lammesse, Old English hlāmmæsse, hlāfmæsse. See loaf¹, Mass

Examples for Lammas

There are only some very bad wells for the cattle, and they have to fetch drinking-water from afar, from Ghenab and Lammas.

The weather had been abnormally dry, and there might after all be no Lammas floods.

The Lammas meadows are divided into strips like the arable land for the purpose of the hay crop.

Beyond all else, she was interested in the procession of ghosts on Lammas Eve.

Lammas (loaf mass) is also found as a personal name, but there is a place called Lammas in Norfolk.

"This beats the Lammas flood o' '68," said the landlord, as he led the way to supper.

The season was harvest, and the Lammas floods had brought up the bull or sea trouts.

If you time your visit between Maunday and Lammas, you obtain fourteen thousand years' pardon.

Grass-yrth may be the gafol for the share in the Lammas meadows, and the gafol-yrth for the arable in the yard-land.

The Lammas rights of the parishioners, with respect to this land, are now extinct.