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verb

Cram v. t. (past & past part. crammed; pres. part. cramming)

1.

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. "Their storehouses crammed with grain." "He will cram his brass down our throats."

2.

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." "Cram us with praise, and make us As fat as tame things."

3.

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.

Cram v. i.

1.

To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff. "Gluttony... Crams, and blasphemes his feeder."

2.

To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study. (Colloq.)

noun

Cram n.

1.

The act of cramming.

2.

Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an examination. (Colloq.)

3.

(Weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.

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"Cram" Quotes from Famous Books

... capital to interest. One word more and I have done. With regard to our subject, the best rule is not to write concerning that about which we cannot at our present age know anything save by a process which is commonly called cram: on all such matters there are abler writers than ourselves; the men, in fact, from whom we cram. Never let us hunt after a subject, unless we have something which we feel urged on to say, it is better to say ...

— Samuel Butler's Cambridge Pieces • Samuel Butler

... The increased self-respect of army life fitted them to do the duties of civil life. It is not in nature that the jealousy of race should die out in this generation, but I trust they will not see the fulfilment of Corporal Simon Cram's prediction. Simon was one of the shrewdest old fellows in the regiment, and he said to me once, as he was jogging out of Beaufort behind me, on the Shell Road, "I'se goin' to leave de Souf, Cunnel, when de war is over. I'se made up my mind dat dese ...

— Army Life in a Black Regiment • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

... France to let Monsieur de Richelieu give as many balls and f'etes as he pleases, if it is only for my diversion. This journey to Paris is the last colt's tooth I intend ever to cut, and I insist upon being prodigiously entertained, like a Sposa Monacha, whom they cram with this world for a twelvemonth, before she bids adieu to it for ever. I think, when I shut myself up in my convent here, it will not be with the same regret. I have for some time been glutted with the world, ...

— The Letters of Horace Walpole Volume 3 • Horace Walpole

... shout, or flaunt a scarf,— Its mobs are all agog and flying; They 'll cram the levee of a dwarf, And leave a ...

— Dreamthorp - A Book of Essays Written in the Country • Alexander Smith

... old-fashioned hospitality. Everybody knew, meantime, that the spirit of good-will, the grace of universal sympathy, was really growing in the world, and that it was only our awkwardness that, by striving to cram it all for a year into twenty-four hours, made it seem a little farcical. And everybody knows that when goodness becomes fashionable, goodness is likely to suffer a little. A virtue overdone falls on t'other side. And a holiday that takes on such proportions ...

— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

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