"Dimber-Damber" meaning in English

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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "1860, John Fellows, The mysteries of freemasonry, page 224",
          "text": "Then standing up in the middle of the fraternity, and directing his face to the Dimber-Damber, or prince of the gang, he swears, in this manner, as is dictated to him by one of the most experienced:",
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        {
          "ref": "1868, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch - Volumes 54-55, page 61",
          "text": "When each gipsy Dimber-Damber Wraps him in a sheet of amber, When the smiling glow-worm skims O'er the ice-berg, singing hymns, When electric organs roar Round sad Staffa's dismal door, and the mermaid seeks her den, Eating oysters — watch me then.",
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          "ref": "1936, Ronald Fuller, The Beggars' Brotherhood, page 92",
          "text": "The Upright Man who performed the ceremony was the elected King of the Beggars, the Rector Chory or Dimber-Damber.",
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        "Alternative form of dimber damber"
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          "ref": "1860, John Fellows, The mysteries of freemasonry, page 224",
          "text": "Then standing up in the middle of the fraternity, and directing his face to the Dimber-Damber, or prince of the gang, he swears, in this manner, as is dictated to him by one of the most experienced:",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1868, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch - Volumes 54-55, page 61",
          "text": "When each gipsy Dimber-Damber Wraps him in a sheet of amber, When the smiling glow-worm skims O'er the ice-berg, singing hymns, When electric organs roar Round sad Staffa's dismal door, and the mermaid seeks her den, Eating oysters — watch me then.",
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          "text": "The Upright Man who performed the ceremony was the elected King of the Beggars, the Rector Chory or Dimber-Damber.",
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        }
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        "Alternative form of dimber damber"
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