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dwimmer - What does it mean?

Definition of 'dwimmer'

English

Alternative forms

* dweomer

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Magic, magic arts; sorcery; spell; occult art.
  • * 1954 , J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers :
  • "It is ill dealing with such a foe: he is a wizard both cunning and dwimmer -crafty, having many guises."
  • *2010 , W. R. Cooper, Oriana Oakley and the Primrose Path :
  • “The Lych and his dark dwimmer spell have you resisted—even defeated, defeated for the present. But you have not destroyed. They shall return in time, I fear.”
  • *2011 , John Henson, Broken Wings :
  • The soldiers peered into the deep dark shaft In which lay the monk with tonsorshorn A victim of the sorcerous lady's dwimmer craft

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