cram

Definitions

1. 1.To fill with food to satiety; to stuff. Children would be freer from disease if they were not crammed so much as they are by fond mothers. Locke. Cram us with praise, and make us As fat as tame things. Shak.
2. 2.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. 3.To eat greedly, and to satiety; to stuff. Gluttony . . . . Cr, and blasphemes his feeder. Milton.
4. 4.To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study. [Colloq.]
5. 5.The act of cramming.
6. 6.Innformation hastily memorized; as. a cram from an examination. [Colloq.]
7. 7.(Weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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Definition-first questions whose answer is cram.

• What is 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 called?
• What is to eat greedly, and to satiety; to stuff. Gluttony . . . . Cr, and blasphemes his feeder. Milton called?
• What is to make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study. [Colloq.] called?
• What is innformation hastily memorized; as. a cram from an examination. [Colloq.] called?
• What is a warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed called?