| Palmer 1. (n.) One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice. 2. (n.) A wandering religious votary; especially, one who bore a branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land and its sacred places. 3. (n.) A palmerworm. 4. (n.) Short for Palmer fly, an artificial fly made to imitate a hairy caterpillar; a hackle. Thesaurus Entries abbacomes, ascetic, beadsman, brother, caloyer, celibate, cenobite, conventual, conventual prior, friar, grand prior, hermit, hieromonach, lay abbot, lay brother, mendicant, monastic, monk, palmer, pilgrim, pillar saint, pillarist, prior, religieux, religious, stylite |