Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A ewe that is two years old.
- noun A contemptuous term for a woman.
- noun A gimbal.
- noun A hinge.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A piece of mechanism; mechanical device or contrivance; a gimcrack.
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- noun Northern England A
ewe between one and two years old.
Etymologies
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Examples
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A low moment was watching, with a hammering heart, a gimmer who'd run along a rocky promenade and jumped into a rough sea after delivering a healthy lamb.
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Unexpectedly, after droughts in New Zealand and an increased demand for lamb in China and Africa, sheep prices are at their highest for a long time about £110 for a gimmer – a young ewe.
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It was mostly white, with just a gimmer of the prismatic colors of a conventional rainbow, but it was impressive.
Archive 2004-03-07 Michael Evans 2004
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It was mostly white, with just a gimmer of the prismatic colors of a conventional rainbow, but it was impressive.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2004
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A gimmer with a hard g is 'a ewe between the first and second shearing.'
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You see, when I were nine yeer owd, my father gave me two gimmer lambs an 'I were prouder yon day nor iver
Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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Thanks, yahyah, for this gimmer of light in our current dark days.
The Guardian World News Andrew Sparrow 2011
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He explained that a tup is a boy and a gimmer is a girl.
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Isaac told the Evening Mail's Nature Watch that Judith has had a tup lamb and a gimmer lamb.
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His friend Simon Graham, also 19, from Hallrigg Farm, Plumpton, triumphed in the highly competitive texel section with a shearling gimmer ewe.
News round-up 2010
hernesheir commented on the word gimmer
Scots term for a ewe that is two years old, or between its first and second shearing. A gelt gimmer is a barren ewe, and a lam gimmer is a young sheep or ewe that is one year old.
May 18, 2011