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Rim   /rɪm/   Listen
noun
Rim  n.  
1.
The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin.
2.
The lower part of the abdomen. (Obs.)
Arch rim (Phonetics), the line between the gums and the palate.
Rim-fire cartridge. (Mil.) See under Cartridge.
Rim lock. See under Lock.


verb
Rim  v. t.  (past & past part. rimmed; pres. part. rimming)  To furnish with a rim; to border.





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"Rim" Quotes from Famous Books



... watch in front of himself on the table] If he doesn't get here within the next five minutes, he isn't coming at all. And suppose in the meantime we drink with his ghost. [Touches the third glass with the rim of ...
— Plays by August Strindberg, Second series • August Strindberg
... in the mill. The rope grooves are made on Hick, Hargreaves & Co.'s standard pattern of deep groove, and the wheel, which is built up, is constructed on their improved plan with separate arms and boss, and twelve segments in the rim with joints planed to the true angle by a special machine designed and made by themselves. The weight of the fly-wheel is about 60 tons. The condensing apparatus is arranged below, so that there ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 286 - June 25, 1881 • Various
... than my thumb, citizen," said the facetious postilion, taking care that his thumb touched the rim ...
— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas, pere
... and arose; the cigarette dropped from his fingers. The moon had again broken through the clouds, and this time much nearer. Not a mile away was the patch of light that it threw upon the waves. Back of it, to the rim of the sea was a lane of moonlight; a gigantic gleaming serpent racing over the edge of the world straight and surely ...
— The Moon Pool • A. Merritt
... I gave Mrs. Falconer, I'll swear to it—I'll tell you how I know it particularly. There's a little outer rim here, with points to it, which there is not to the other. I fastened my bread-seal into an old setting of my own, from which I had lost the stone. Mrs. Falconer took a fancy to it, among a number of others, so I let her have it. Now I have answered all your questions—answer mine—Whom ...
— Tales And Novels, Vol. 8 • Maria Edgeworth


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