Definitions for lammas day

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Lammas, Lammas Day, August 1(noun)

    commemorates Saint Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison; a quarter day in Scotland; a harvest festival in England

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Lammas Day

    the first of August, literally "the loaf-mass" day or festival day at the beginning of harvest, one of the cross quarter days, Whitsuntide, Martinmas, and Candlemas being the other three.


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