[f. LAMB v. + -ER1.]

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  1.  One who tends ewes when lambing.

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1809.  D. Price, in Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. lxxviii. 71. Many lambs may be lost without its being possible to charge the lamber with neglect or ignorance. Ibid., in H. Stephens, Bk. Farm (1849), I. 591/1. Lambing presents a scene of confusion … which it is the lamber’s business to rectify.

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  2.  A lambing ewe.

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1886.  C. Scott, Sheep-Farming, 80. At the end of the first week the second lot of lambers may be brought in.

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