Ream

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
ream
    n 1: a large quantity of written matter; "he wrote reams and
         reams"
    2: a quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20
       quires
    v 1: squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer; "ream
         oranges"
    2: remove by making a hole or by boring; "the dentist reamed out
       the debris in the course of the root canal treatment"
    3: enlarge with a reamer; "ream a hole"
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ream \Ream\ (r[=e]m), n. [AS. re['a]m, akin to G. rahm.]
   Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale. [Scot.]
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ream \Ream\, v. i.
   To cream; to mantle. [Scot.]
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         A huge pewter measuring pot which, in the language of
         the hostess, reamed with excellent claret. --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ream \Ream\, v. t. [Cf. {Reim}.]
   To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or
   filaments.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ream \Ream\, n. [OE. reme, OF. rayme, F. rame (cf. Sp. resma),
   fr. Ar. rizma a bundle, especially of paper.]
   A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting
   of twenty quires or 480 sheets.
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   {Printer's ream}, twenty-one and a half quires. [Eng.] A
      common practice is now to count five hundred sheets to the
      ream. --Knight.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ream \Ream\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Reamed} (r[=e]md); p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Reaming}.] [Cf. G. r[aum]umen to remove, to clear
   away, fr. raum room. See {Room}.]
   To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in
   modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a
   reamer.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "ream":
      auger, bawl out, beat, bilk, bite, bore, broach, bugger, cardboard,
      chew, chew ass, chew out, chisel, countersink, cozen, cuss out,
      diddle, do, drill, empierce, fellate, fix, give a going-over,
      give hail Columbia, give hell, give the deuce, give what-for, gobs,
      gore, gouge, gouge out, gyp, heap, hole, honeycomb, impale,
      jack up, lambaste, lance, leaf, loads, mace, masturbate, needle,
      oodles, open up, page, paper, penetrate, perforate, pierce, pink,
      prick, punch, puncture, quantities, quire, ream ass, ream out,
      riddle, run through, screw, sheet, sit on, skewer, slew, sodomize,
      spear, spike, spit, stab, stationery, stick, tap, transfix,
      transpierce, trepan, trephine, wads
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