Dimber

Villon's Straight Tip (W.E. Henley -- 1887) "When my Dimber Dell I Courted" (A.on -- 1725) "Wot Cher" (A. Chevalier -- 1892) "Ye Scamps, ye Pads, ye Divers" (Messink -- 1781) "Ya-Hip, my Hearties!"

Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

_Dimber dell_ = pretty wench -- "A dell is a yonge wenche, able for generation, and not yet knowen or broken by the upright man ... when they have beene lyen with all by the upright man then they be Doxes, and no Dells."

Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

_Dimber-damber_ = the chief of a gang: also an expert thief.

Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

Some traces of Jerry still remained, but not a vestige was left of the original Dimber Damber.

Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843