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▪ I. ormer, n.
(ˈɔːmə(r), ‖ ɔrmɛr)
[Jersey and Guernsey Fr., = F. ormier, contracted from oreille-de-mer, or ad. L. auris maris sea-ear, from its resemblance to the ear (Littré).]
The Sea-ear; a species of univalve mollusc, Haliotis tuberculata, specially abundant in Guernsey, where it is used as food. Hence extended to all species of Haliotis.
1672Sir C. Lyttelton in Hatton Corr. (Camden) 81 Y⊇ ormers were thought most excellent meate. 1694Falle Jersey ii. 74 We have also the Ormer, which is a Fish scarce known out of these Islands. Ormer..is a Contraction of Oreille de Mer... It has no Under-shell like the Oyster, but the Fish clingeth to the Rock with the Back, and the Shell covers the Belly. 1837M. Donovan Dom. Econ. II. 169 The ormer, a shell-fish, has been compared to veal-cutlet. 1856Woodward Mollusca iii. 425 Ormers..may be removed from the rocks to which they adhere by throwing a little warm water over them. 1873M. Collins Squire Silchester II. xvi. 201 The ormer is the most delicious of univalves.
b. attrib.
1755H. Walpole Lett., to Bentley 31 Oct. (1846) III. 167, I shall thank you for the Ormer shells and roots.
▪ II. ˈormer, v. Channel Islands.
[f. the n.]
To collect ormers. Chiefly as ˈormering vbl. n.; also attrib.
1903Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 359/2 He's gone ormering. 1953W. D. Hooke Channel Islands iv. 110 Ormering is another important amusement. A very low tide is always referred to in the Islands as ‘an Ormering tide’. 1953S. P. B. Mais Channel Islands 67 It was a full moon and a spring tide, ‘ormering’ time. 1953M. Peake Mr. Pye x. 71 ‘Where are you going, Tintagieu?’ ‘Ormering.’.. ‘I d-didn't know there was an ormer tide.’ 1965‘J. Christopher’ Wrinkle in Skin vi. 77 Matthew had walked out occasionally, on an ormering tide. 1968R. M. Lockley Channel Islands 74 Even hard-hearted employers have forgiven employees absent from work over a low tide when the excuse has been ‘ormering’. 1976W. Rutherford Jersey iii. 40 The land and the sea were exploited to the utmost for the islanders' subsistence, and from them came the traditional customs: the ormering parties, held when the oreille-de-mer were gathered. |