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Webster 1913 Edition

(r?m)

Noun.

[D.

riem

, akin to G

riemen

; CF. Gr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK][GREEK] a towing line.]

A strip of oxhide, deprived of hair, and rendered pliable, – used for twisting into ropes, etc.

[South Africa]

Simmonds.