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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1400-1674
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Gimmer, Gymmer, n. Also: gimmyr, -or, -ar, gimer; gymmyr, -ar, gymer; gylmyr. [e.m.E. gimer, ME. gymbyre, -ure (c 1425), ON. gymbr, gimbr (Icel., Fær. gimbur, Norw. gimber, gymb(e)r, gymmr, Sw. gimber, gimmer).] A year-old ewe. (Freq. as plural.)(a) 14.. Acts II. 4/2.
A gait, a gymer, or a dynmont 1482 Acts Lords Auditors 99/2.
The actioune … anent the spulȝe & slauchter of ijc gymmyr & dynmont 1483 Ib. *123/2.
Thretti sex scheip, of thaim xiij wederis … and the remanent gymmer and dynmonth 1509–10 Rentale Dunkeld. fol. 81 b.
Centum trigenta nouem lie gymmer & dynmond 1511–2 Ib. fol. 140.
Lie gymmar … , lie dynmonth 1516 Fam. Rose 190.
viijxx gimmor and dinmontis 1547 Misc. Spald. C. V. 313.
xi score vij hoges, and v score iiij gymmers 1593 Brechin Testaments I. 109.
Auchtene scheip, thairof xij ȝowis and gymmeris, the rest dulmondis 1612 Edinburgh Testaments XLVII. 4.
Fourtie fyve gymmer, dynmount, and outcummit hogis 1627 Ib. LIV. 142 b.
xx gimer & dimond 1661 Buccleuch Mun. II. 308.
Aucht hundereth wedderis, … sex hundereth ȝewis, hogis, and gimmeris 1674 Melrose Reg. Rec. II. 376.
[To pay 95 merks as the price of] 23 gimmares and ane outcomed hogattrib. 1567 Edinburgh Testaments I. 34 b.
Tuelf scheip, gymmer and dynmonth 1580 Brechin Testaments I. 31 b.
Ten gymmer and dilmond scheipe(b) 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 66/33.
Baytht ȝouis and lammis, … gylmyrs and dilmondis, and mony herueist hog
