DEFINITION
CRAM:
• (v. t.) 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.
• (v. t.) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
• (v. t.) 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.
• (v. i.) To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
• (v. i.) To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an
examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study.
• (n.) The act of cramming.
• (n.) Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an
examination.
• (n.) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent
or split of the reed.