Ream /(rēm)/

Ream

n.
  1. Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale. [Scot.]

Ream

v. i.
  1. To cream; to mantle. [Scot.]
    A huge pewter measuring pot which, in the language of the hostess, reamed with excellent claret.

Ream

v. t.
  1. To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments.

Ream

n.
  1. A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, usually consisting of twenty quires or 480 sheets.

Phrases & Compounds
Printer's ream
twenty-one and a half quires. [Eng.] A common practice is now to count five hundred sheets to the ream.

Ream

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Reamed; p. pr. & vb. n. Reaming

  1. 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.