LekhoriLekhoriTo take or seize.
Ich cham a Cornysche man, al[e] che can brew; […] Nym me a quart of ale, that iche may it of sup.
To filch, steal, pilfer.
They'll question Mars, and, by his look, Detect who 'twas that nimm'd a cloak;
To walk with short, quick strides; trip along.
The old lady does nim along. 1949, Wilfrid J. Halliday, Arthur Stanley Umpleby, The White Rose Garland of Yorkshire Dialect Verse and Local and Folk-lore Rhymes (quoting Irene Sutcliffe), page 111: Ah had set myself doon where the aums meet aboon,
A game in which players take turns removing objects from heaps.
Alternative form of neem (“Indian tree”).
From Middle English nimen, from Old English niman (“to take”), from Proto-West Germanic *neman, from Proto-Germanic *nemaną (“to take”), from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to give or take one's due”). C...
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