Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bowl full to the top.
- noun A broad-brimmed hat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A brimful bowl; a bumper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun   A cup brimming over with liquid.
- noun dialect  A hat with a brim, especially a straw hat.
Etymologies
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Examples
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								And now, when you have pledged my uncle, who threatens you with what he calls a brimmer, I will tell you what you think of me. '' Rob Roy 1887 
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								And now, when you have pledged my uncle, who threatens you with what he calls a brimmer, I will tell you what you think of me.” Rob Roy 2005 
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								And now, when you have pledged my uncle, who threatens you with what he calls a brimmer, I will tell you what you think of me. " Rob Roy — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801 
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								And now, when you have pledged my uncle, who threatens you with what he calls a brimmer, I will tell you what you think of me. " Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801 
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								“Here is to thee, with all my heart, son Harry,” said the old man, filling a brimmer to his companion and another to himself; 
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								Till he the bottom of the brimmer saw. and comes off clearly, sound trumpets, fife and drums, the spectators will applaud him, the [1429] bishop himself (if he belie them not) with his chaplain will stand by and do as much, 
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								Gentlemen, fill a brimmer — this is my excellent friend, Bailie Nicol Rob Roy 2005 
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								“Drink hael, Holy Clerk of Copmanhurst!” answered the warrior, and did his host reason in a similar brimmer. Ivanhoe 2004 
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								Hence Moses chose rather to drink a brimmer of these, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin 
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								I called for small-beer, the master tipped the wink, and the servant brought me a brimmer of October. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education 
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