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The Meaning of ream

  • (n.) Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.
  • (v. i.) To cream; to mantle.
  • (v. t.) To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments.
  • (n.) A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets.
  • (v. t.) To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer.

Homophones

reim

Rhymes

academe , agleam , avrim , basim , beahm , beam , beem , bireme , bleam , bloodstream , bream , chromakalim , cream , creme , daelim , daydream , deam , deem , diehm , downstream , dream , episteme , esteem , extreme , fleam , gleam , gleim , greim , grieme , hakim , hapoalim , haradim , ibrahim , joachim , karim , keim , liem , mainstream , maxime , midstream , mneme , moonbeam , passim , pezim , priem , raheem , rahim , redeem , regime , reim , sarofim , scheme , scream , seam , seem , sephardim , siem , steam , stream , sunbeam , supreme , team , teem , theme , thieme , upstream , vadim , ziehm