DIMPS

also DIMPSE

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? derivative of dim, or dialect variant of dumps, dump (n.)

1693 - A True and Exact Account of the Retaking of a Ship Called 'The Friend's Adventure of Topsham', Robert Lyde of Topsham, Devon;
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From: An English Garner: 
Ingatherings from Our History and Literature
Edited by Edward Arber
Volume VII, 1883
A True and Exact Account of the Retaking of a Ship, called The Friends' Adventure, of Topsham, from the French;
After she had been taken six days, and they were upon the coasts of France with it four days.
Where One Englishman and a boy set upon Seven Frenchmen, killed two of them, took the other Five prisoners, and brought the ship and them safe to England.
Performed and written by Robert Lyde, Mate of the same ship, 1693
Off Topsham, The Pilot Will Not Come Out
P. 450