nim

1. (obsolete, transitive) To take or seize.Examples: "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 […]"; "Gryndall carefully sets out the difference between seizing or nimming a bird (an outcome that would constitute a partly successful flight) and taking the bird outright: 'And if your Hawke noume [nim, seize] a foule, and the foule breake from her, she hath discomfited many feathers of the foule, and is broken away: but in kindly speech you shall say, your hawke hath noumed or seased a foule, and not taken it'."obsoletetransitive

2. (archaic, slang, transitive) To filch, steal, pilfer.Examples: "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."; "But while he fell in some brave exploit, you, I suppose, being provident rogues and thieves of discretion, were on the sure lay, pilfering little thefts among the mob, fearfully nimming a cloak or rifling some old woman's bulk of a stock to set up a piece-broker's shop."archaicslangtransitive

3. (intransitive, UK dialectal) To walk with short, quick strides; trip along.Examples: "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,"UKdialectalintransitive