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Webster 1913 Edition


Palmer

Palm′er

,
Noun.
[From
Palm
,
Verb.
T.
]
One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.

Palm′er

,
Noun.
[From
Palm
the tree.]
A wandering religious votary; especially, one who bore a branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land and its sacred places.
Chaucer.
Pilgrims and
palmers
plighted them together.
P. Plowman.
The pilgrim had some home or dwelling place, the
palmer
had none. The pilgrim traveled to some certain, designed place or places, but the
palmer
to all.
T. Staveley.

Webster 1828 Edition


Palmer

PALMER

,
Noun.
p`amer. One that returned from the Holy Land bearing branches of palm; a pilgrim or crusader.

Definition 2024


Palmer

Palmer

See also: palmer

English

Proper noun

Palmer

  1. An English surname.

Anagrams

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palmer

See also: Palmer

English

Noun

palmer (plural palmers)

  1. A pilgrim who had been to the Holy Land and who brought back a palm branch in signification.
    Pilgrims and palmers plighted them together. – P. Plowman.
    The pilgrim had some home or dwelling place, the palmer had none. The pilgrim traveled to some certain, designed place or places, but the palmer to all. – T. Staveley.

Etymology 2

From the transitive verb to palm.

Noun

palmer (plural palmers)

  1. One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.

References

  • palmer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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Alternative forms

Etymology

palma + -er

Noun

palmer m (plural palmers)

  1. palm tree

Latin

Verb

palmer

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of palmō

Middle English

Noun

palmer (plural palmeres)

  1. a pilgrim from the Holy Land
    • And palmeres for to seken strange stroundes
      To ferne halwes, kouthe in sondry londes.
      – Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, ll. 14–15

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

palmer m

  1. indefinite plural of palme

Swedish

Noun

palmer

  1. indefinite plural of palm