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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
  • Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.
  • The act of cramming.

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Verb:

  • Study hard, swot.
  • To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
  • To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
  • To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.
  • To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket; to cram a room with people.
  • To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.

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