f., pl. lær (i. e. lœr), lóa, u, f., Edda ii. 489, and in mod. usage:—a sandpiper; for a pretty legend of the origin of this bird see Ísl. Þjóðs. ii. 1, 2; snemma lóan lítla í lopti bláu dirrindí undir sólu syngr, Jónas; veiða smirla ok lœr, Grág. ii. 346; heitir lœr á leiru, Skálda 205, Edda (Gl.); hei-ló, q. v. = sandpiper; sand-ló, id.

2. metaph. a coward; flýðu þeir undan, lœr þeir, the sandpipers, the hares! Fms. xi. 36. ló-þræll, m. ‘sandpiper-thrall,’ the dunlin or tringa alpina, Edda (Gl.), so called from its following in the wake of the sandpiper, Fjölnir ix. 69, 70.

II. = lóð, q. v.; ló á klæði; hence af-lóa, adj. threadbare.