glymmer

English

Etymology

Variant of glimmer.

Noun

glymmer (plural glymmers)

1. (obsolete, thieves' cant) Fire.
   • 1849, The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist, page 414:

     Dimber damber fare thee well, / Palliards all thou didst excel, / And thy jocky bore the bell, / Glymmer on it never fell.