Definitions for maimer

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

maimmeɪm(v.t.)

  1. to deprive of the use of some part of the body, esp. by wounding.

  2. to impair; disfigure.

  3. (n.)Obs.an injury, esp. loss of a limb.

Origin of maim:

1250–1300; < AF, OF mahaignier, perh. < Frankish *maithanjan to castrate

maim′er(n.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. mutilator, maimer, mangler(noun)

    a person who mutilates or destroys or disfigures or cripples

Wiktionary

  1. maimer(Noun)

    Agent noun of maim; one who maims.


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