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Limmer   Listen
noun
Limmer  n.  
1.
A limehound; a leamer.
2.
(Zool.) A mongrel, as a cross between the mastiff and hound.
3.
A low, base fellow; also, a prostitute. (Scot.) "Thieves, limmers, and broken men of the Highlands."
4.
(Naut.) A man rope at the side of a ladder.






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"Limmer" Quotes from Famous Books



... him! Woe upon that man!" he cried. "O the unfaithful shepherd! O the hireling and apostate minister! Make my matters hot for me? quo' she! the shameless limmer! And true it is, that he could repose me in that nasty, stinking hole, the Canongate Tolbooth, from which your mother drew me out—the Lord reward her for it!—or to that cold, unbieldy, marine place of the Bass Rock, which, with my delicate ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI • Robert Louis Stevenson



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