the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Cram
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
(2):
(v. t.) 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.
(3):
(v. t.) 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.
(4):
(v. i.) To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
(5):
(v. i.) To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.
(6):
(n.) The act of cramming.
(7):
(n.) Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination.
(8):
(n.) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Cram'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/cram.html. 1828.
