"nim" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1547 (original; printed 1870), Andrew Boorde, The First Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge, page 122",
          "text": "Ich cham a Cornysche man, al[e] che can brew; […] Nym me a quart of ale, that iche may it of sup."
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          "ref": "1566–1573 (original; printed 1873), John Partridge, The Hystorie of the Moste Noble Knight Plasidas, and Other Rare Pieces, page 106",
          "text": "Then Alfyne to the court Of Syleuma doth come,\nAnd Pandauola in her armes\nHer Alfyne hath up num\nAnd kisseth him full ofte […]"
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          "ref": "2017, Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed With Kindness, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 155",
          "text": "Gryndall carefully sets out the difference between seizing or nimming a bird (an outcome that would constitute a partly successful flight) and taking the bird outright: 'And if your Hawke noume [nim, seize] a foule, and the foule breake from her, she hath discomfited many feathers of the foule, and is broken away: but in kindly speech you shall say, your hawke hath noumed or seased a foule, and not taken it'.",
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          "ref": "1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 1",
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          "text": "They'll question Mars, and, by his look,",
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          "ref": "1785, Hutton, Bran New Wark, I. 305, quoted in 1903, Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary: M-Q, page 273",
          "text": "Nimming and niftering whativver he can try his fists on."
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          "ref": "1821, Apuleius, The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius, of Medaura, page 131",
          "text": "But while he fell in some brave exploit, you, I suppose, being provident rogues and thieves of discretion, were on the sure lay, pilfering little thefts among the mob, fearfully nimming a cloak or rifling some old woman's bulk of a stock to set up a piece-broker's shop.",
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          "ref": "1824 (edition; original 1790), Nairne, Tales, 37, quoted in 1903, Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary: M-Q, page 273",
          "text": "They nim a pig, a duck, or fowl."
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          "ref": "1854, Oliver Oldham, Oldham's Amusing and Instructive Reader: A Course of Reading, Original and Selected, in Prose and Poetry, Wherein Wit, Humor, and Mirth are Made the Means of Awakening Interest, and Imparting Instructon : for the Use of Schools and Academies, page 110",
          "text": "Shall we go nim a horse, Tom,—what dost think? […] Nim? yes, yes, yes, let's nim with all my heart; I see no harm in nimming, for my part; […] Were it my lord mayor's hourse—I'd nim it first. [...A horse] they stole, or, as they called it, nimmed,\nJust as the twilight all the landscape dimmed. […] What is most likely, is that both these elves\nWere, in like manner, halter-nimmed themselves.",
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          "text": "The old lady does nim along.\n1949, 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:\nAh had set myself doon where the aums meet aboon,",
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          "ref": "1547 (original; printed 1870), Andrew Boorde, The First Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge, page 122",
          "text": "Ich cham a Cornysche man, al[e] che can brew; […] Nym me a quart of ale, that iche may it of sup."
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          "ref": "1566–1573 (original; printed 1873), John Partridge, The Hystorie of the Moste Noble Knight Plasidas, and Other Rare Pieces, page 106",
          "text": "Then Alfyne to the court Of Syleuma doth come,\nAnd Pandauola in her armes\nHer Alfyne hath up num\nAnd kisseth him full ofte […]"
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          "ref": "2017, Thomas Heywood, A Woman Killed With Kindness, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 155",
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          "ref": "1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 1",
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          "text": "They'll question Mars, and, by his look,",
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          "ref": "1785, Hutton, Bran New Wark, I. 305, quoted in 1903, Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary: M-Q, page 273",
          "text": "Nimming and niftering whativver he can try his fists on."
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          "ref": "1821, Apuleius, The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius, of Medaura, page 131",
          "text": "But while he fell in some brave exploit, you, I suppose, being provident rogues and thieves of discretion, were on the sure lay, pilfering little thefts among the mob, fearfully nimming a cloak or rifling some old woman's bulk of a stock to set up a piece-broker's shop.",
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          "ref": "1824 (edition; original 1790), Nairne, Tales, 37, quoted in 1903, Joseph Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary: M-Q, page 273",
          "text": "They nim a pig, a duck, or fowl."
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          "ref": "1854, Oliver Oldham, Oldham's Amusing and Instructive Reader: A Course of Reading, Original and Selected, in Prose and Poetry, Wherein Wit, Humor, and Mirth are Made the Means of Awakening Interest, and Imparting Instructon : for the Use of Schools and Academies, page 110",
          "text": "Shall we go nim a horse, Tom,—what dost think? […] Nim? yes, yes, yes, let's nim with all my heart; I see no harm in nimming, for my part; […] Were it my lord mayor's hourse—I'd nim it first. [...A horse] they stole, or, as they called it, nimmed,\nJust as the twilight all the landscape dimmed. […] What is most likely, is that both these elves\nWere, in like manner, halter-nimmed themselves.",
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