reamer

From ream + -er.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹi.məɹ/

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• Hyphenation: ream‧er
• Rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)

reamer (plural reamers)

1. A tool for boring a hole wider.
   • 1977, Roger W. Autor Bolz, Production Processes: The Productivity Handbook‎^[1], 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^[2], 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.”

reamer (third-person singular simple present reamers, present participle reamering, simple past and past participle reamered)

1. (transitive) To use a reamer on something; to clear out something using a reamer.

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• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈre.a.mɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛː.a.mer]

reamer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of reamō