1. primer - Noun
2. primer - Adjective
3. Primer - Proper noun
One who, or that which, primes
an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other compound for igniting a charge of gunpowder.
First; original; primary.
Originally, a small prayer book for church service, containing the little office of the Virgin Mary; also, a work of elementary religious instruction.
A small elementary book for teaching children to read; a reading or spelling book for a beginner.
A kind of type, of which there are two species; one, called long primer, intermediate in size between bourgeois and small pica [see Long primer]; the other, called great primer, larger than pica.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt would seem that the Watergate story from beginning to end could be used as a primer on the American political system. Bob Woodward
In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation - it is a convention. The curse against God is Exercise I in the primer of minor poetry. G. K. Chesterton
There is no primer for being an NFL owner. It is learn-as-you-go. Jimmy Haslam
I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is. Mario Batali
20. We pray that every proprietary parson or vicar having a benefice of 10 or more by year, shall either by themselves, or by some other person teach poor men’s children of their parish the book called the catechism and the primer. Source: Internet
Actually primer, definitely get the will shake out to $49 with the discount. Source: Internet