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What does "rime" mean?

Rime: A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack. Sir T. Browne.

Additional senses

  1. 2.White frost; hoarfrost; congealed dew or vapor. The trees were now covered with rime. De Quincey.
  2. 3.To freeze or congeal into hoarfrost.
  3. 4.A step or round of a ladder; a rung.
  4. 5.Rhyme. See Rhyme. Coleridge. Landor. Note: This spelling, which is etymologically preferable, is coming into use again.
  5. 6.To rhyme. See Rhyme.

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