nim Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them; in some versions the object is to take the last remaining matchstick on the table and in other versions the object is to avoid taking the last remaining matchstick on the table

WordNet

Nim transitive verb
Etymology
AS. niman. &root; 7. Cf. Nimble.
Wordforms
imperfect Nam or Nimmed ; past participle Nomen or Nome
Definitions
  1. To take; to steal; to filch. Obs.
    This canon it in his hand nam. Chaucer.

Webster 1913