nim

To take or seize.

Ich cham a Cornysche man, al[e] che can brew; […] Nym me a quart of ale, that iche may it of sup.

Then Alfyne to the court Of Syleuma doth come, And Pandauola in her armes Her Alfyne hath up num And kisseth him full ofte […]

To filch, steal, pilfer.

They'll question Mars, and, by his look, Detect who 'twas that nimm'd a cloak;

Nimming and niftering whativver he can try his fists on.

To walk with short, quick strides; trip along.

The old lady does nim along. 1949, Wilfrid J. Halliday, Arthur Stanley Umpleby, The White Rose Garland of Yorkshire Dialect Verse and Local and Folk-lore Rhymes (quoting Irene Sutcliffe), page 111: Ah had set myself doon where the aums meet aboon,

A game in which players take turns removing objects from heaps.

Alternative form of neem (“Indian tree”).