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† ˈgamner, ˈgamener Obs.
[f. gamen vb. (see game v.1) + -er1.]
1. A gamester, a player, a gambler.
1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 148 Such are great gamners hauing small substance. 1529More Comf. agst. Trib. i. Wks. 1162/2 Then left them their gameners and slily slonke awaye. 1563Abp. Parker Articles, Whether your Persons, Vicars, and Curates be common gameners. 1565J. Halle Hist. Expost. p. xvii, If thou have not as great desyre to thy boke, as the greatest gamner hath to his game, thou shalte never worthily be called cunnyng in this art.
2. An athlete.
1567Bauldwin's Mor. Philos. ii. v. 77 b, The gamner breaketh his leg in dauncing..his arme, his shoulder, or his necke in wrastling. [So in later eds. until 1600; eds. 1610gammer, c 1620–30gamer.] |