Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Palmer

Palmer , noun

[From Palm, transitive verb]

One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.

Palmer , noun

[From Palm the tree.]

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. — Chaucer
Pilgrims and palmers plighted them together. — P. Plowman
The pilgrim had some home or dwelling place, the palmer had none. The pilgrim traveled to some certain, designed place or places, but the palmer to all. — T. Staveley