'Ream' definitions:
Definition of 'ream'
From: WordNet
noun
A large quantity of written matter; "he wrote reams and reams"
noun
A quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires
verb
Squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer; "ream oranges"
verb
Remove by making a hole or by boring; "the dentist reamed out the debris in the course of the root canal treatment"
verb
Enlarge with a reamer; "ream a hole"
Definition of 'Ream'
From: GCIDE
- Ream \Ream\ (r[=e]m), n. [AS. re['a]m, akin to G. rahm.] Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale. [Scot.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Ream'
From: GCIDE
- Ream \Ream\, v. i. To cream; to mantle. [Scot.] [1913 Webster]
- A huge pewter measuring pot which, in the language of the hostess, reamed with excellent claret. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Ream'
From: GCIDE
- Ream \Ream\, v. t. [Cf. Reim.] To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Ream'
From: GCIDE
- Ream \Ream\, n. [OE. reme, OF. rayme, F. rame (cf. Sp. resma), fr. Ar. rizma a bundle, especially of paper.] A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets. [1913 Webster]
- Printer's ream, twenty-one and a half quires. [Eng.] A common practice is now to count five hundred sheets to the ream. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Ream'
From: GCIDE
Synonyms of 'ream'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- auger,
- bawl out,
- beat,
- bilk,
- bite,
- bore,
- broach,
- bugger,
- cardboard,
- chew,
- chew ass,
- chew out,
- chisel,
- countersink,
- cozen,
- cuss out,
- diddle,
- do,
- drill,
- empierce,
- fellate,
- fix,
- give a going-over,
- give hail Columbia,
- give hell,
- give the deuce,
- give what-for,
- gobs,
- gore,
- gouge,
- gouge out,
- gyp,
- heap,
- hole,
- honeycomb,
- impale,
- jack up,
- lambaste,
- lance,
- leaf,
- loads,
- mace,
- masturbate,
- needle,
- oodles,
- open up,
- page,
- paper,
- penetrate,
- perforate,
- pierce,
- pink,
- prick,
- punch,
- puncture,
- quantities,
- quire,
- ream ass,
- ream out,
- riddle,
- run through,
- screw,
- sheet,
- sit on,
- skewer,
- slew,
- sodomize,
- spear,
- spike,
- spit,
- stab,
- stationery,
- stick,
- tap,
- transfix,
- transpierce,
- trepan,
- trephine,
- wads