Dictionaries of the Scots Language:: SND

About this entry:
First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1955

[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0]

LAMMER, v. To beat, batter.Rxb. 1955 Sunday Post (8 May):
Mr Boog had just been “lammerin' doon” a stone in one of the lawns.

[A corruption of Labour, v., q.v., by conflation with Eng. lam, id.]

You may wish to vary the format shown below depending on the citation style used.

"Lammer v.". Dictionary of the Scots Language. 2004. Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd. Accessed 5 Sep 2026 <http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/lammer_v>

16913

snd

Dictionaries of the Scots Language
Dictionars o the Scots Leid