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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[From

Verb.

]

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

Noun.

[From

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.

Noun.

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