Examples of rummer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Apple, a 2015 Edgewood graduate, clinched his spot in Tokyo with a rummer-up finish in the 100-meter freestyle during the U.S. Olympic Swim Trials in Omaha, Nebraska on June 17. — Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 22 June 2021

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History and Etymology for rummer

earlier also romer, borrowed from Dutch (17th century) roemer or German Römer, both meaning literally "person from Rome, Roman"

Note: The form rummer presumably shows secondary shortening of the vowel. Perhaps the original sense was "drinking vessel resembling Roman glass," though a more precise origin of the name is apparently unknown. An association with Dutch roemen "to praise," from the use of such glasses in toasting, is probably secondary.

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