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Rim   /rɪm/   Listen
noun
Rim  n.  
1.
The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin.
2.
The lower part of the abdomen. (Obs.)
Arch rim (Phonetics), the line between the gums and the palate.
Rim-fire cartridge. (Mil.) See under Cartridge.
Rim lock. See under Lock.


verb
Rim  v. t.  (past & past part. rimmed; pres. part. rimming)  To furnish with a rim; to border.





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"Rim" Quotes from Famous Books



... a long, brown streak with a rim of green, in which sparkled the tin roofs of huge hotels. The hands from the sea had pushed them away. The two men sprang erect, and did a little dance ...
— Men, Women, and Boats • Stephen Crane
... sultry tropic day, when the last flicker of the far southeast trade was fading out and the seasonal change for the northwest monsoon was coming on, the Kittiwake lifted above the sea-rim the jungle-clad coast of ...
— A Son Of The Sun • Jack London
... means we have an additional reason for taking Delton." Mr. Hawkins looked about him to be sure all were listening. In the east the red rim of the morning sun was bulging over the horizon. The time for action ...
— The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River - or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers • Willard F. Baker
... ranch house and scented the golden dusk with burning tobacco of an inferior but popular brand. I listened but idly to the minute details of the catastrophe, discovering more entertainment in the solemn wake of light a dulled sun was leaving as it slipped over the sagging rim of Arrowhead Pass. And yet, through my absorption with the shadows that now played far off among the folded hills, there did come sharply the impression that this Sawtelle person was dwelling too insistently upon the precise number of stitches required ...
— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... levity and peruse me with a more serious air. I cast a sidelong glance at the good-liking of the world at large, more for the sake of their advantage and instruction than their praise. They are children; if we give them physic we must sweeten the rim of the cup with honey,' &c. To this principle he faithfully adhered in all his original poems. He felt the difficulty of the task which he had proposed to himself. He knew that he would have to break through a thick, hard crust of prejudice before he could reach his readers' ...
— The English Church in the Eighteenth Century • Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton


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