subs. (colloquial).—1.  A hunting-man; a sportsman.

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  1599.  HAKLUYT, Voyages, II., i., 309. These mighty NIMRODS fled, some into holes and some into mountaines.

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  1765.  BLACKSTONE, Commentaries, IV., 416. The game laws have raised a little NIMROD in every parish.

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  1823.  BADCOCK (‘Jon Bee’), Dictionary of the Turf, etc., s.v.

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  1887.  Athenæum, 13 Aug., 208, 1. To the former (old sportsmen) he will recall events almost forgotten concerning the NIMRODS of a past generation.

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  2.  subs. (venery).—The penis. [Because ‘a mighty hunter.’] See CREAMSTICK and PRICK.

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