ream
/ɹiːm/
noun
- 1
Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general.
verb
- 1
To cream; mantle; foam; froth.
verb
- 1
To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider.
- 2
To shape or form, especially using a reamer.
- 3
To remove (material) by reaming.
- 4
To remove burrs and debris from a freshly bored hole.
- 5
To yell at or berate.
- 6
(by extension from sense of enlarging a hole) To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way.
noun
- 1
A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets.
- 2
(chiefly in the plural) An abstract large amount of something.
“I can't go – I still have reams of work left.”
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