Hypertext Webster Gateway: "nim"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Nim \Nim\, v. t. [imp. {Nam}or {Nimmed}; p. p. {Nomen}or
{Nome}.] [AS. niman. [root] 7. Cf. {Nimble}.]
To take; to steal; to filch. [Obs.]
This canon it in his hand nam. --Chaucer.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
nim
n : game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players
alternately remove one or more of them; in some versions
the object is to take the last remaining matchstick on
the table and in other versions the object is to avoid
taking the last remaining matchstick on the table
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