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  • noun Plural form of brimmer.

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Examples

  • Preserved Coppinger (a hot fellow in his night, may the mouther of guard have mastic on him!) in a pullwoman of our first transhibernian with one still sadder circumstance which is a dirkandurk heartskewerer if ever to bring bouncing brimmers from marbled eyes.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • The wenches were doubly diligent, and brought brimmers of

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • The wenches were doubly diligent, and brought brimmers of

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • He distinguished drunken voices singing snatches of bacchanalian songs, while now and then stentorian mouths called for fresh brimmers, and new toasts were drunk with uproarious applause.

    The Golden Dog William Kirby 1861

  • He ate up two-thirds of the capon, and, devoting the first bumper to the happy restoration of Charles, second of the name, he finished a quart of wine; for he belonged to a school accustomed to feed the flame of their loyalty with copious brimmers.

    Woodstock 1855

  • No wonder, then, that they made a straight wake for the whale's mouth -- the bar -- when the wrinkled little old Jonah, there officiating, soon poured them out brimmers all round.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • No wonder, then, that they made a straight wake for the whale's mouth -- the bar -- when the wrinkled little old Jonah, there officiating, soon poured them out brimmers all round.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • And the stout old gentleman emptied his bumper; to which Dick replied by filling and emptying a pair of brimmers, one for the General and one for the Duke.

    The History of Henry Esmond 1852

  • No wonder, then, that they made a straight wake for the whale's mouth -- the bar -- when the wrinkled little old Jonah, there officiating, soon poured them out brimmers all round.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

  • A keg of brandy was broached, and the health of the new brother quaffed in brimmers.

    Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843

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