dimmit

Noun

1. Alternative form of dimmet (Twilight; dusk; crepusculum)
   • “ My Billy is out with his boat in the bay. To snare the bright herring for me, And I, with my arms, in the dimmit of day, Will snare the bold son of the sea.” - 1858, Edward Capern, “Kitty Lile; or, Mazed Kate of...
   • The following account of the same custom, as practised at Bideford, North Devon, has been communicated to me by J. G. Cooper, Esq., of that town “ The custom appears to have been immediately at the end of the day when...
   • If you choose to carry the girl about in your cart, to Polworthy an' back, 'tis no account o' mine ; nor if you're a mind to waste your time in the dimmit (twilight), hangin' round Gridge's cottage, as I do hear ; but...