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† ˈglimmerer slang. Obs.
[f. glimmer n.1 (sense 3 a) + -er1.]
(See quots.)
[1567: cf. glimmering ppl. a. 2.] 1605Dekker & Wilkins Iests (1607) 33 Another sort of these shee morts, or monsters..& they are the Glimerers. Your Glimerer, shees vp in the morning, [enters a house on the pretext of procuring a light for her fire, and steals what she can lay hands on]. 1673R. Head Cant. Acad. 84 The Glymmerers are such as travel up and down with Licenses to beg, under the pretence that they have lost all by fire. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. iii. §68 Glymmerers, Firers of Houses, thereby to steal in Confusions. 1785Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue, Glimmerers, persons begging with sham licences, pretending losses by fire. |