Also 5 cleymare, 7 claymer. [f. CLAIM v. + -ER.] One who claims; a claimant.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 80. Cleymare, vendicator.

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1617.  Hieron, Wks., II. 64. Two claymers of the crowne.

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1652.  Milton, Lett. State (1851), 287. Courts … where the Claimers may be severally heard.

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1779.  in Ohio Arch. & Hist. Quarterly, Sept. (1888), 283. Claimers of large tracts of land.

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1885.  Kendal Mercury, 10 July, 5/3. Denunciation of rent claimers, of rent payers, and above all of land-grabbers.

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