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dinmont Sc. and north. dial.|ˈdɪnmənt|
Forms: 5 dymmond, 6 dilmond, dynmonthe, 9 dinman, dinment, dimment, dinmond, dynmont, 6– dinmont.
[Etymology obscure: the second syllable looks like ‘month’ as in towmont twelvemonth, but the first is unexplained.]
The name given in Scotland, and the Border counties of England, to a wether between the first and second shearing.
1424Sc. Acts Jas. I (1814) 4 (Jam.) Item, Gymmer, Dyn⁓mont, or Gaitis, ilk ane to xiid. 1494Act. Dom. Conc. 353 (Jam.) Vijxx of gymmeris and dymmondis. 1542Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1835) 119, I yeue vnto saynt cuthb'te guild a dynmonthe or ellis the price. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 66 The laif of ther fat flokkis follouit..gylmyrs and dil⁓mondis. 1584Vestry Bks. (Surtees) 18 Item at Shaudforthe a weather, a yowe, a dinmont, and ij lams. 1791–2Statist. Acc. Berw. III. 155 (Jam.) When they are 18 months old, after the first fleece is taken off..they are called dimmotts. 1814Scott Wav. xi, Killancureit talked..of top-dressing and bottom-dressing, and year-olds, and gimmers, and din⁓monts. 1892Northumbld. Gloss. 236 A lamb is called a hog in autumn, and after the first shearing of the new year, a dinmont if it be a male sheep, and a gimmer if an ewe. |