Definition of "gime" [gime]

• A hole washed out of the ground by the rushing water when an embankment gives way. Peacock, Glossary (Manley and Corringham). (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The last act of a corrupt and crumbling régime is always the looting of the public treasury."
• "The astonishment Paine expresses in Rights of Man at Burke's refusal to criticize or even to enumerate the crimes and cruelties of the ancien régime is clearly genuine."
• "If one examines the people who, having some idea of what the Russian régime is like, are strongly russophile, one finds that, on the whole, they belong to the “managerial” class of which Burnham writes."