What's the difference between gammer and mammer?

Gammer


Definition:

  • (n.) An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) According to statues and images of the Saint, the martyrdom took place by stoning or else by the use of instruments of torture such as pincers, gouge and gammer, and dentists' forceps.

Mammer


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To hesitate; to mutter doubtfully.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Previously undetected analogies between the two proteins emerge as a result of selecting a common orientation in this mammer.

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