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Their storehouses crammed with grain.

Shak.

He will cram his brass down our
throats.

Swift.

2. To fill with food to satiety; to
stuff.

Children would be freer from disease if they were
not crammed so much as they are by fond mothers.

Locke.

Cram us with praise, and make us

As fat as tame things.

Shak.

3. 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.

Cram, v. i. 1.
To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.

Gluttony . . . .

Crams, and blasphemes his feeder.

Milton.

2. To make crude preparation for a
special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive
course of memorizing or study. [Colloq.]

Cram, n. 1.
The act of cramming.

2. Information hastily memorized; as, a
cram from an examination.


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