GLIM,
a Dark-Lanthorn used in robbing Houses; also to burn in the Hand as if the Cull was Glimmed, he'll gang to the Nub; i.e. if the Fellow has been burnt in the Hand, he'll be hanged now.
Glim in the 1811 Vulgar Tongue
Also see examples in Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes collected by John S. Farmer (1896).