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Webster 1913 Edition

Cram

Cram

(krăm)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Crammed
(krămd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Cramming
.]
[AS.
crammian
to cram; akin to Icel.
kremja
to squeeze, bruise, Sw.
krama
to press. Cf.
Cramp
.]
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.
Shakespeare
He will
cram
his brass down our throats.
Swift.
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.
Locke.
Cram
us with praise, and make us
As fat as tame things.
Shakespeare
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

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
Gluttony . . . .
Crams
, and blasphemes his feeder.
Milton.
2.
To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.
[Colloq.]

Cram

,
Noun.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Cram

CRAM

,
Verb.
T.
1.
To press or drive, particularly in filling or thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram any thing into a basket or bag; to cram a room with people; to cram victuals down the throat.
2.
To fill with food beyond satiety; to stuff.
Children would be more free from diseases, if they were not crammed so much by fond mothers.
3.
To thrust in by force; to crowd.
Fate has crammed us all into one lease.

CRAM

,
Verb.
I.
TO eat greedily or beyond satiety; to stuff.

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