Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In fortification, a palisade.
  • To ream. Also rimmer.
  • noun One who makes rimes or verses; especially, a maker of verses wherein rime or metrical form predominates over poetic thought or creation; hence, an inferior poet; in former use, also, a minstrel.
  • noun Same as reamer. Also rimmer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A rhymer; a versifier.
  • noun A tool for shaping the rimes of a ladder.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A tool for shaping the rimes of a ladder.

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Examples

  • "rimer," used with a wrench for enlarging or smoothing holes (see TOOL).

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

  • These writers, although they haue not left behind them such filthy and reprochful stuffe as that base rimer: yet there are many things in their writings that wil not suffer them to be excused, & altogether acquited from causing an innocent nation to be had in derision by others.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • These writers, although they haue not left behind them such filthy and reprochful stuffe as that base rimer: yet there are many things in their writings that wil not suffer them to be excused, & altogether acquited from causing an innocent nation to be had in derision by others.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • That brain had crashed to dust beneath Conan's battle-ax on the night the king had fought for his life with the assassins the mad rimer had led into the betrayed palace, but the shuddersome words of that grisly song still rang in the king's ears as he stood there in his chains.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • Such were the rimes of _Skelton_ (vsurping the name of a Poet Laureat) being in deede but a rude rayling rimer & all his doings ridiculous, he vsed both short distaunces and short measures pleasing onely the popular eare: in our courtly maker we banish them vtterly.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • Now also be there many other sortes of repetition if a man would vse them, but are nothing commendable, and therefore are not obserued in good poesie, as a vulgar rimer who doubled one word in the end of euery verse, thus:

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • The fourth is in seven verses, & is the chiefe of our ancient proportions vsed by any rimer writing any thing of historical or graue poeme, as ye may see in _Chaucer_ and

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • Greeke or Latine originall with them; after that sort much better satisfying aswel the vulgar as the learned learner, and also the authors owne purpose, which is to make of a rude rimer, a learned and a Courtly

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • Ye rimer shall mende ye who mendes pottes and pans.

    The Glugs of Gosh 1907

  • A nephew of the poet Desportes, Regnier was loyal to his uncle's fame and to the memory of the Pléiade; if Malherbe spoke slightingly of Desportes, and cast aside the tradition of the school of Ronsard, the retort was speedy and telling against the arrogant reformer, tyrant of words and syllables, all whose achievement amounted to no more than _proser de la rime et rimer de la prose_.

    A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878

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