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Definition of Gimmers
1. gimmer [n] - See also: gimmer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gimmers
Literary usage of Gimmers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Farmer's Magazine (1874)
"Atkinson (including eight Shropshire gimmers), eighteen, £2 12s. 6d. ...
Three parts and half-bred ewes and gimmers : Brockley Hall, half-bred, forty-five, ..."
2. Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland by Wellwood H. Maxwell (1863)
"Shearling Ewes or gimmers. BLACKFACED. Tups not more than four shear. Dinmont or
Shearling Tups ... Ewes and gimmers to be exhibited in pens of five. SWINE. ..."
3. The Book of the Farm by Henry Stephens (1852)
"The number of gimmers fit to be transferred to the ewe flock should ... In drafting
gimmers, many of the above faults may be observed in them also, ..."
4. British Farmer's Magazine (1872)
"Best pen of Leicester gimmers—Silver Cup, value £10, ... Pens of five Lincoln
shearling gimmers.—First prize, £10, J- Pears ; second, £5, RN Morley. ..."
5. General Report of the Agricultural State, and Political Circumstances, of by Sir John Sinclair (1814)
"To supply the place of the old ewes sold yearly, there must therefore be two ages
of females, one of them shearlings or gimmers, and the other two shear or ..."
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