[f. LIME v.1 + -ER1.] One who limes; one who snares with bird-lime; one who limewashes. Also a brush used for limewashing. (See also WHITE-LIMER.)
1611. Cotgr., Blanchisseur, a white dauber, or white limer.
a. 1642. Sir W. Monson, Naval Tracts, III. (1704), 347/1. Hair, such as the White Limers use.
1655. Speymouth Session Rec., 20. David Dunbar was desyred to agree with some lymers for as much lyme as would serve.
1872. Daily News, 8 June, 5/2. She was only furnishing the Whitechapel trappers and limers with a new and valuable kind of quarry.
1894. P. N. Hasluck, House Decoration, 67. In some parts of the country this ‘limer’ is the principal ceiling-brush used…. Limers of the best kind are as expensive as distemper brushes.
