Thesaurus: ream

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1. n. Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.
2. v. i. To cream; to mantle.
3. v. t. To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments.
4. n. A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets.
5. v. t. To bevel out, as the mouth of a hole in wood or metal; in modern usage, to enlarge or dress out, as a hole, with a reamer.
6. n. a large quantity of written matter
7. n. a quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires
8. v. squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer
9. v. remove by making a hole or by boring
10. v. enlarge with a reamer