Definition of "limmer"

Thieves, limmers, and broken men of the Highlands.

1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown

Doll Sneerpiece was not a scholar but fond of gentlemen, although to dub her a limmer, would have been to do her a wrong.

1994, Jeanette Winterson, Art and Lies

Then the limmer Scottes ared me, burnt my guddes, and made deadlie feede on me and my barnes.

1564, Bullein, Dialogue

The roote is long and very limmer, spreading his bráches both large and long under the earth and doth oftentimes let, hinder, & staye both the plough and Dren in toyling the ground, for they be so tough and limmer, that the share & colter of the plough cannot easily divide and cut them asunder.

1578, Rembert Dodoens, A Nievve Herball, Or Historie of Plantes, page 669

Auld plenishen out by was strew'd, Guid L--d but it was limmer; Some creepy stools, an' shelfs weel scower'd Tae hide the worm pict tim'er Tae sell that day.

1844, Robert Huddleston, A Collection of Poems and Songs, on rural subjects, page 81

If you ride with the hell-spawned reivers and live as a limmer thief then you must expect to be singed by hell's fire.

2002, Linda Lea Castle, Embrace the Sun: The Vaudrys, page 13