Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various tools used to shape or enlarge holes or bores.
- noun A utensil with a conical, ridged projection, used for extracting juice from citrus fruits.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which reams; specifically, a tool used for reaming out holes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, reams; specifically, an instrument with cutting or scraping edges, used, with a twisting motion, for enlarging a round hole, as the bore of a cannon, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
tool forboring a hole wider. - noun A device for rendering
citrus juice. - noun A tool used to scrape
carbon deposit from the bowl of apipe . - noun A
Stone Age prehistoriclithic Stone tool, used inarcheology nomenclature.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a squeezer with a conical ridged center that is used for squeezing juice from citrus fruit
- noun a drill that is used to shape or enlarge holes
Etymologies
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Examples
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And yes, the word reamer also makes me giggle–I guess I’m 12, too.
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They also said that the long string design might have contributed an accumulation of debris and drilling mud that might have interfered with a device known as a reamer shoe that plays a role in closing an important valve in the central drill pipe.
Money concerns didn't drive Deepwater Horizon decisions, panel counsel says Steven Mufson 2010
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They also said that the long string design might have contributed an accumulation of debris and drilling mud that might have interfered with a device known as a reamer shoe that plays a role in closing an important valve in the central drill pipe.
Money concerns didn't drive Deepwater Horizon decisions, panel counsel says Steven Mufson 2010
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As with the spout, the tray and sieves are fairly lightweight-gauge stainless; but the reamer is a solid piece of heavy, polished metal.
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Reaming with solid reamer means machining of close-tolerance holes (fitting holes) by means of a reamer which is fixed in the tailstock of the lathe.
4. Reaming with solid reamer Detlev Krechlok 1990
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I couldn’t get the word reamer at the moment and hence the term - ‘the wooden thing’.
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I think that I still have a Clymer reamer for the Roberts.
anyone own a 25-06? 2009
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These were made by reaming molten glass with a graphite reamer.
Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » Amber Nests, three and four 2010
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I also provided fireformed AI cases (that had been fired in another rifle which I had chambered with the same reamer) and explained that I wanted the new barrel to be headspaced to fit the fireformed cases I left with him.
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I think that I still have a Clymer reamer for the Roberts.
anyone own a 25-06? 2009
hernesheir commented on the word reamer
Loveliest of instruments, the reamer now
Scrapes the bad tooth like a plow;
And all along the lingual side
Pain explodes until the nerve is fried.
My apologies to A.E. Housman for conflating his poem with a dentists' tool used to perform a root canal.
June 23, 2011
Wordplayer commented on the word reamer
Youch!
June 24, 2011