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noun

Limmer n.

A limehound; a leamer.

(Zool.) A mongrel, as a cross between the mastiff and hound.

A low, base fellow; also, a prostitute. (Scot.) "Thieves, limmers, and broken men of the Highlands."

(Naut.) A man rope at the side of a ladder.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Limmer" Quotes from Famous Books

... in Dr. Johnson's friend Mr. Edwards's phrase, do not "break in" of themselves, you must make them, to keep any freshness in the task. I fancy the twenty volumes were, if not "my sole occupation" (like that more cheerful and charitable one of the head-waiter at Limmer's), my main one for nearly twice ...

— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury

... the reason that Sanny has lost his contracts an' the reason why Tam Granger has stepped into them? Oh, ay," she cried, her voice rising as she continued. "I can see hoo things are workin'! I ken a' aboot it. Wee Leebie, I suppose, will be afore some o' us noo. The stuck-up limmer that she is. She gangs by folk as brazened as you like, wi' her head in the air, as if she was somebody. You wad think she never had heard o' Willie Broonclod, the packman, that she sloped when she left doon ...

— The Underworld - The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner • James C. Welsh

... Street is Limmer's Hotel, formerly a noted resort of sporting men, rebuilt and enlarged in 1876. No. 25 is a handsome stone-fronted mansion, built in 1864 for Earl Temple. In 1895 it was in possession of the Duchess of Buckinghamshire. In a house on the same site lived John Copley, the painter, and his ...

— Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater - The Fascination of London • Geraldine Edith Mitton