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ream [rēm]
(engineering)
To enlarge or clean out a hole.
(materials)
A layer of nonhomogeneous material in flat glass.
Five hundred sheets of paper; a printer's ream consists of 516 sheets.
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I suppose there was a matter of half a ream of brown paper stuck upon me, from first to last.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context
He'd write letters by the ream, if it was a capital offence
David Copperfield by Dickens, Charles View in context
She answered it with reams of passion, clumsy, for she had no gift of expression, ill-written, and vulgar; the letter bored him, and when it was followed next day by another, and the day after by a third, he began to think her love no longer flattering but alarming.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
 
 
 
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