"dwimmer" meaning in English

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          "word": "dwimmercraft"
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          "ref": "1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers",
          "text": "It is ill dealing with such a foe: he is a wizard both cunning and dwimmer-crafty, having many guises.",
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        {
          "ref": "2010, W. R. Cooper, Oriana Oakley and the Primrose Path",
          "text": "The Lych and his dark dwimmer spell have you resisted—even defeated, defeated for the present. But you have not destroyed. They shall return in time, I fear.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2011, John Henson, Broken Wings",
          "text": "The soldiers peered into the deep dark shaft In which lay the monk with tonsorshorn A victim of the sorcerous lady's dwimmer craft",
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        "(fantasy) Magic, magic arts; sorcery; spell; occult art."
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