[f. LAMB v. + -ER1.]
1. One who tends ewes when lambing.
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 lambers business to rectify.
2. A lambing ewe.
1886. C. Scott, Sheep-Farming, 80. At the end of the first week the second lot of lambers may be brought in.