reamer

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English

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Taper pin reamers in assorted sizes.

Etymology

From ream +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Noun

reamer (plural reamers)

  1. A tool for boring a hole wider.
    • 1977, Roger W. Autor Bolz, Production Processes: The Productivity Handbook‎, page 12-81:
      allowance at the bottom of blind bores for the chamfered tip of the reamer will obviate additional operations with shouldering or bottoming reamers to completely finish the entire length of a hole.
  2. A device for rendering citrus juice.
  3. A tool used to scrape carbon deposit from the bowl of a pipe.
  4. A Stone Age prehistoric lithic stone tool, used in archeology nomenclature.
  5. One who reams.
    • 2022 August 9, Ayo Edebiri & Shana Gohd, “Private School” (18:27 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows‎, season 4, episode 5, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):
      “Just to be clear, old-timer, I'm not always the sucker, and he's not always the reamer.” “Though, he does ream me nightly.” “Adolfo, you dirty dog.”

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Pronunciation

Verb

reamer

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of reamō
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