Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bowl full to the top.
- noun A broad-brimmed hat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A brimful bowl; a bumper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
cup brimming over with liquid. - noun dialect A
hat with a brim, especially a straw hat.
Etymologies
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Examples
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And now, when you have pledged my uncle, who threatens you with what he calls a brimmer, I will tell you what you think of me. ''
Rob Roy 1887
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And now, when you have pledged my uncle, who threatens you with what he calls a brimmer, I will tell you what you think of me.”
Rob Roy 2005
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And now, when you have pledged my uncle, who threatens you with what he calls a brimmer, I will tell you what you think of me. "
Rob Roy — Volume 01 Walter Scott 1801
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And now, when you have pledged my uncle, who threatens you with what he calls a brimmer, I will tell you what you think of me. "
Rob Roy — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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“Here is to thee, with all my heart, son Harry,” said the old man, filling a brimmer to his companion and another to himself;
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Till he the bottom of the brimmer saw. and comes off clearly, sound trumpets, fife and drums, the spectators will applaud him, the [1429] bishop himself (if he belie them not) with his chaplain will stand by and do as much,
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Gentlemen, fill a brimmer — this is my excellent friend, Bailie Nicol
Rob Roy 2005
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“Drink hael, Holy Clerk of Copmanhurst!” answered the warrior, and did his host reason in a similar brimmer.
Ivanhoe 2004
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Hence Moses chose rather to drink a brimmer of these, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.
The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin
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I called for small-beer, the master tipped the wink, and the servant brought me a brimmer of October.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
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