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glimmer noun
1 a fire la16-.
2 in plural peats 20. Compare glim etymology: this meaning has been obsolete in English since late seventeenth century; Scots has glim ‘a speck of light or fire’ from the nineteenth century; attested by Galloway and Perthshire and Argyleshire Tinkler-Gypsies; sense 1 attested by BS in TDITA and SS; also collected by EMcC/PS; sense 1 collected by RD note:

Grose and Egan (1823) as attest sense 1 glimmer ‘a fire’ as ‘Cant’. Cited by Canadian Paul Pope (2013) as ‘fire, light’.