Hypertext Webster Gateway: "limmer"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Limmer \Lim"mer\ (-m[~e]r), a.
Limber. [Obs.] --Holland.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Limmer \Lim"mer\, n. [F. limier. See {Leamer}.]
1. A limehound; a leamer.

2. (Zo["o]l.) A mongrel, as a cross between the mastiff and
hound.

3. A low, base fellow; also, a prostitute. [Scot.]

Thieves, limmers, and broken men of the Highlands.
--Sir W.
Scott.

4. (Naut.) A man rope at the side of a ladder.


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