Cram

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1. Verb

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.

2. Verb

To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.

3. Verb

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.

4. Verb

To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.

5. Verb

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

6. Noun

The act of cramming.

7. Noun

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

8. Noun

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