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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



... should be well filled. A small quantity of food should not be placed in a large kettle. It is possible, however, to fill the large kettle almost full of boiling water, then rest a wire rack on the rim of the kettle and place a small pan containing the food in the wire rack (see Figure 26). Or place the food in a pan with sloping sides and broad rim, such as a "pudding pan," which may be set in the large kettle so as to rest ...
— School and Home Cooking • Carlotta C. Greer

... gates are swung apart and laden steamships pass out on the road she may no longer travel. The days pass—the weeks—the months; the tide ebbs, and comes again; fair winds carry but trailing smoke-wrack to the rim of a far horizon; head winds blow the sea mist in on her—but she lies unheeding. Idle, unkempt, neglected; and the haughty figurehead of her is ...
— The Brassbounder - A Tale of the Sea • David W. Bone

... misfortune then suddenly overwhelmed me, not that, sharp as a blown trumpet, I heard the voice of doom blare over me; not that, as one sees the upper rim of the sun vanish beneath the waves where the skyline meets the sea, and knows day ended and night begun, not thus that I recognized the end of my prosperity and the beginning of my disasters. That moment came later, as I shall record. It was rather that; as, ...
— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White

... angry sport. It was not long, however, before their strife was brought to a conclusion; for, almost as the friends entered, the hindmost horseman of the two made a thrust at the other, which taking effect merely on the lower rim of his antagonist's parma, glanced off under his outstretched arm, and made the striker, in a great measure, lose his balance. As quick as light, the other wheeled upon him, feinted a pass at his breast with the ...
— The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2) • Henry William Herbert

... or hope Dare I to cast thy horoscope! Like the new moon thy life appears; A little strip of silver light, And widening outward into night The shadowy disk of future years; And yet upon its outer rim, A luminous circle, faint and dim, And scarcely visible to us here, Rounds and completes the perfect sphere; A prophecy and intimation, A pale and feeble adumbration, Of the great world of light, that ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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