- One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice. - A wandering religious votary; especially, one who bore a
branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land and its
sacred places. - A palmerworm. - Short for Palmer fly, an artificial fly made to imitate a
hairy caterpillar; a hackle.
- One who cheats at a horse race; one who bets, without a
chance of being able to pay; one who receives money to back certain
horses and absconds with it.