| 释义 |
▪ I. rim, n.1
Forms: 1 rimo, rima, 5 reme, 5, 7, 9 rime, 6–7 ryme; 5–7 rym, 6 rymme, 7 rimme, 7–8 rimb, 7– rim.
[OE. rima wk. masc., = ON. rime, rimi (Norw. rime) a raised strip of land, a ridge. There are app. no parallel forms in the other Teutonic languages.
The evidence for the OE. word chiefly rests on the compounds dæᵹrima day-rim, sǽrima sea-rim, and tóðrima gums. The Corpus Gloss. however has the entry ‘Crepido, rimo’ (Hessels, C 898), which is repeated in a later vocabulary (c 1050, in Wr.-Wülcker 366) as ‘Crepido, rima’. In early ME. the evidence appears to be limited to day-rim and sea-rim, wood-rim in Laȝamon 740, and perhaps way-rim (text weie reme) in the Prov. Alfred 617.]
1. a. The peripheral portion or outer ring of a wheel, connected with the nave or boss by spokes or by a web.
In wooden wheels the rim does not include the metal tyre protecting it. In the metal wheels of locomotives, cycles, or machinery it is usually grooved or flanged.
a1400–50Alexander 1850 We riden on þe rime [v.r. reme] & on þe ringe seten of þe qwele of Fortoun. c1440Promp. Parv. 434/1 Rym, of a whele, timpanum, circumferencia. 1513Douglas æneis xii. Prol. 162 The payntit povne..Kest vp his taill, a provd plesand quheil rym. 1530Palsgr. 263/1 Rymme of a whele or stabbe, peav. 1688Holme Armoury iii. 331/1 The Cart Wheel hath the Rim set with round Nails. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Rim, in a Watch or Clock, is the Circular part of the Ballance thereof. 1794W. Felton Carriages (1801) I. 113 The patent wheel has the rim of one entire piece. 1873Richards Operator's Handbk. 140 Procure pulleys of 30 to 36 inches diameter with 8 inches face, the rims heavy and turned true inside and out. 1886Cyclist Touring Cl. Gaz. Dec. 474/2 A fairly deep rim is important. Whether the advantage of the hollow rim is paid for or not should depend a great deal on the character of the general riding.
b. The hoop-shaped piece of wood which forms the outer frame of a sieve, drum, etc. Also dial. a hoop.
1660Bk. Rates in Stat. Realm V. 196 Rims for Sives. 1674Ray Coll. Words 122 The sand, earth and other dross, flows over the rimme of the sierce with the water. 1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 33 The Drum-maker uses it for Rimbs. 1844Stephens Bk. Farm II. 281 A wheat-riddle of wood..with an oak rim. 1888Sheffield Gloss. s.v., A child's hoop, used as a plaything, is called a rim. 1934[see rim-shot, sense 6 below]. 1976New Yorker 8 Mar. 108/3 He would hit the snare directly, or hit the snare-head and the rim (a rim shot).
c. A circular mark or object.
1860Reade Cloister & H. lii, They have all the Dutch rim under their bright eyes, that comes of dwelling in eternal swamps. 1873W. H. Dixon Two Queens III. xiii. iii. 18 He besought the king to crown his brother Henry with that golden rim.
d. pl. spec. that part of the frame of a pair of spectacles which surrounds the lens.
1865Dickens Mut. Fr. II. iii. vi. 48 Mr Wegg, in fitting on his spectacles, opened his eyes wide, over their rims, and tapped the side of his nose. 1903G. B. Shaw Man & Superman iv. 147 He pauses quietly to take out and put on his spectacles, which have gold rims. 1923A. Huxley Antic Hay x. 156 For semi-evening dress, shell rims with gold ear-pieces—and gold nose-bridge. 1937J. Squire Honeysuckle & Bee i. 24 They certainly wouldn't swallow my yarn at a ‘Spike’ if I turned up in tortoiseshell rims.
2. Naut. The surface of the water.
1602Carew Cornwall 106 In the hotest Summer weather, they swimme with the ryme of the water, and in the Winter, keepe the depth. 1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 72 The sword fish placeth himselfe under the belly of the whale, and the thresher upon the ryme of the water. Ibid. 116. 1887 J. T. Brown in Goode Fisheries of U.S. II. 264 If the whale is swimming ‘top-water’, the harpooner has a better target to dart at; but if swimming under the ‘rim of the water’,..he must make the best use of his time.
3. a. The edge, border, or margin of an object, esp. one which has more or less of a circular form. Also fig. (quot. 1603).
1603Breton Dial. of Pithe & Pleasure Wks. (Grosart) II. 13/1 By her that came out of him, euen a part of himselfe, the Rimme of his whole selfe. 1667Phil. Trans. II. 437 The Sight of the Quadrant being slid along the Rimb of it. 1698Ibid. XX. 112 The Verge or Rime of the outward Ear seem'd to be crimp'd. 1753Chambers Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Mushroom, The rims of the tender umbels in these kinds clap themselves quite close to the stalks. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 596 We..garnish the rims of our dishes with dabs of chewed greens. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 335 Anthers forming a hollow cylinder as long as the floret, with 5 teeth at the rim. 1817Keats I stood tip-toe 113 The moon lifting her silver rim Above a cloud. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xxi. IV. 620 Few pieces were exactly round; and the rims were not marked. 1885Watson & Burbury Math. Electr. & Magn. I. 137 The disc [becomes] a spherical bowl, whose rim is a circle at right angles to the axis. Ibid., The colatitude of that rim.
b. The verge of the horizon, sea, hills, etc. Chiefly poet.
1842Tennyson Day-Dream 170 Across the hills, and far away Beyond their utmost purple rim. 1850B. Taylor Eldorado i. (1862) 3 The far rim of the horizon seemed as if it would never break into an uneven line. 1858Longfellow M. Standish i. 56 The steel-blue rim of the ocean.
fig.1862‘Shirley’ (J. Skelton) Nugæ Crit. ii. 97 The desolate and unpeopled unknown which lies beyond the rim of our life. 1863Tyndall Heat xiv. (1870) 502 Having exhausted science and reached its very rim.
c. U.S. slang. The outer edge of the semi-circular or horseshoe-shaped desk at which a newspaper's sub-editors work.
1923W. G. Bleyer Newspaper Writing & Editing (rev. ed.) i. 10 The copy-desk is semicircular in form, and the head copy-reader sits in the ‘slot’, or inside of the desk, while the copy-readers occupy places around the outside, or ‘rim’. 1933Garst & Bernstein Headlines & Deadlines ii. 26 The copy desk usually is semicircular or horseshoe-shaped... The copy editors sit ‘on the rim’. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 2 Oct. 4/2 At 9:05 p.m., Crimson President Jim Kramer hurries over to the rim, where Managing Editor Margaret Shapiro is marking copy.
4. a. An edge, margin, or border; esp. a raised or projecting one upon something having a circular form.
1669Boyle Contn. New Exp. i. (1682) 165 A Wooden plug,..furnished with a Rimme or Lip.
1824R. Stuart Hist. Steam Engine 69 A projecting rim rising above the highest point to which the piston is elevated. 1832H. Martineau Life in Wilds iii. 30 One little boy complained..that there was no rim to his plate. 1875Darwin Insectiv. Plants xiv. 324 A narrow rim of the broad flat exterior part of each lobe is turned inwards. 1896Daily News 19 Dec. 6/4 A rim of chinchilla finished the edges of this novel sleeve.
b. A verge or margin of land, sea, etc.; a narrow strip.
1781Cowper Hope 49 The blue rim, where skies and mountains meet. 1833Tennyson Pal. Art 75 The ragged rims of thunder brooding low. 1864― Aylmer's F. 147 Where the brook Vocal, with here and there a silence, ran By sallowy rims. 1878Huxley Physiogr. xv. 254 Inside the rim of land there is a shallow lake or lagoon.
fig.1858Froude Hist. Eng. xix. IV. 185 Having fringed the Tweed with a black broad mourning rim of havoc.
c. Naut. (See quot.)
c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 141 Rims, those pieces which form the quarter galleries between the stools. Also a cast-iron frame in which the dropping palls of a capstan traverse and bring up the capstan.
d. ellipt. = rim-rock, sense 6. N. Amer.
1869J. Anderson Rough but Honest Miner in Sawney's Lett. (ed. 2), He hammers at the rock, Believin' its's a rim, When ten to ane 'tis naething But his fancy's whim. 1946Notes Placer-Mining (Brit. Columbia Dept. Mines Bull. No. 21) 21 The first shallow diggings gave way to..sniping operations along the rims or on weathered bed-rock. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 4 July 8-d/4 (Advt.), Between the rims, comfortable, pleasant and quiet 2 and 3 bedroom duplex.
5. Orkney dial. A rocky bottom in the sea.
Cf. Norw. dial. rimm (rimb), rimme, = rime ridge.
1795Statist. Acc. Scotl., Orkney, Birsay XIV. 315 As to rocks, we have three of what we call rims, which are generally occupied by our fishermen as their best fishing grounds..; the rim shoals deepen from 20 to 40 fathom, or upwards.
6. Comb., as rim band, a driving belt or rope passing around a rim wheel; rim-base (see quots.); rim-brake, a brake operating on the rim of a wheel; rim-cap (see quot.); rim drive, a method of driving a gramophone turntable by means of frictional contact between the motor shaft and the inner rim of the turntable, often with an intermediate wheel between the two; so rim-driven a.; rim-face, the outer surface of a wheel-rim; rim-fire, of a cartridge, having the detonating substance disposed round the edge (opp. to centre-fire); hence of a gun, adapted for cartridges of this kind; rim-ignition, = prec.; rim-iron, iron intended to form the rim of a wheel; rim light Photogr. and Cinemat., a lamp placed behind the subject in order to produce the appearance of a halo of light; also, the light produced by a lamp in such a position; so rim lighting; rim-lock, a lock having a metal case which stands out from the face of the door (opp. to mortise-lock); rim man U.S. slang, a newspaper sub-editor (cf. sense 3 c above); rim-rack v. trans. U.S. dial. (chiefly Naut.), to injure or damage (something) (see also quot. 1929); also fig.; hence rim-racked; rim-rock, N. Amer. (see quot. 1882); hence as v. trans., to drive (sheep) over a cliff (see quot. 1944); also rim-rocker, (a) one who rim-rocks sheep; (b) (see quot. 1968); rim-shaft, the shaft of a rim-wheel; rim-shot, a drum-stroke in which the stick strikes the rim and the head of the drum simultaneously; rimstone Geol., a thin layer of calcite deposited round the rim of an overflowing basin or in an evaporating pool of water, characteristic of karst topography; rim-wheel, on a spinning mule: a large pulley which transmits drive to the spindles and serves as a fly-wheel.
1890J. Nasmith Mod. Cotton Spinning Machinery xi. 184 Over this the endless cord or band driving the spindles is passed—being known as the ‘*rim band’. 1970H. Catling Spinning Mule ix. 163 Minders naturally spared neither trouble nor expense to keep their rim bands in the best possible condition.
1864Webster, *Rimbase, a short cylinder connecting a trunnion with the body of a cannon. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Rim-Base, the shoulder on the stock of a musket. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 447/1 The trunnions..support the gun on its carriage, the width of which is determined by the distance between the rim-bases.
1896A. Sharp Bicycles & Tricycles xxxii. 528 Tyre and *Rim Brakes.—The brake is usually applied to the tyre of the front wheel. 1899Fortn. Rev. LXV. 120 Of the rim-brakes there are several varieties. 1917Cycling Man. 18 Rim brakes are the most common in use. 1974Listener 14 Feb. 212/2 The effectiveness of rim brakes is reduced..in wet weather.
1884Britten Watch & Clockm. 47 The *rim cap encloses the space between the plates or frame [of a watch].
1961E. N. Bradley Records & Gramophone Equipment iii. 69 Wow could also occur as a result of damage to the turntable rim (in a *rim-drive system). 1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio viii. 147 Quick-start techniques fall into two categories, depending on the type of drive employed by the turntable. (i) Rim drive. 1976A. Hope Hi-Fi Handbk. iv. 43 In an idler wheel or rim drive design the motor drives a sequence of rollers... Belt drive tends to be quieter, and more expensive, than rim drive.
1956G. Slot Hi-Fi from Microphone to Ear vii. 67 The rim of the turntable (if it is *rim-driven) [must be] perfectly circular.
1863P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 243 The fly-wheel is 25 feet in diameter, 15 inches broad on the *rim-face.
1868Rep. to Govt. U.S. Munitions War 28 In the Spencer rifle magazine,..it is impossible to explode the *rim-fire cartridges, except by a concussion made by the hammer. 1881Greener Gun 136 The cartridge is rim-fire. 1900–1901Kynoch Jrnl. Dec.–Jan. 41/2 The first real rifle I possessed was an antiquated rim-fire rook rifle. 1977D. Seaman Committee 14 Sedgwick assembled the ·22 Marlin rimfire repeater.
1868Rep. to Govt. U.S. Munitions War 19 The comparative merits of central-fire and *rim-ignition cartridges.
1841Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. IV. 29/1 A faggot of wrought iron bars are worked and..drawn out..under the hammer upon an anvil, having a groove to form the flanch, into the state of *rim iron.
1940W. Nurnberg Lighting for Photogr. iv. 105 The greatest luminosity in a *rim-light picture is obviously always the main light produced by the basic illumination. 1948― Lighting for Portraiture ii. 84 A combination of basic cross lighting..supplemented by a rim light on the near side, is bad. 1961P. Snow Electronic Flashlight Photogr. xiv. 115 We are already using two backlights for ‘rim-light’ effects on the subject. 1977J. Hedgecoe Photographer's Handbk. 94 Generally it is advisable to reveal some detail in the rest of the face by using frontal light. This should be soft, shadowless and less intense than the rim light.
1940W. Nurnberg Lighting for Photogr. iii. 61 If we now move the light source horizontally we obtain side-lighting, and when continuing this movement *rim-lighting. 1971Listener 11 Nov. 671/2 The Fonda film has everything:..minimal rim-lighting, fancy focus-pulls.
1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm I. 218, 8-inch Scotch made iron *rim-lock for back-door.
1933R. M. Neal Newspaper Desk Work ii. 7 Copyreaders..are designated as ‘*rim men’. 1970R. K. Kent Lang. Journalism 113 Rim men are the copy-readers who sit at the rim to do their work.
1914Dialect Notes IV. 78 *Rimrack, to injure, damage. 1929F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 112 Rim-Rack, to, to strain or damage a vessel, particularly by driving her too hard in a sea. Very frequently used on the Grand Banks. 1952Amer. Legion Mag. July 5/2, I am going to tell you right now my husband is not joining the American Legion another year if you keep up this rim-racking the Administration. 1957Maine Coast Fisherman July 21/1 If nets have been rimracked it means working on deck under flood repairing nets and gear. 1974J. Dowell Look-Off Bear 32 Faded denim workshirt, rim-racked old felt hat..and calf-high lumberman's rubbers.
1860H. Greeley Overland Journey 350 It is one of the arts of the miner to know just where to tunnel through the ‘*rim rock’ so as to strike what was the bottom of the lake. 1872Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 84 Two small mills of eight stamps each were erected in 1868 and inclines sunk on the rim-rock. 1882U.S. Rep. Prec. Met. 621 ‘Rim-rock’ is such portion as remains of the country-rock which formed the sides or banks of the ancient rivers. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang. §917/9 Rimrock, to drive sheep over a precipice. 1944R. F. Adams Western Words 128/2 Rim rockin' sheep, running sheep over a cliff to destruction. This was often done during the wars between the cattle and the sheep factions. 1949World-Herald Mag. (Omaha, Nebraska) 18 Sept. 18/5 Cattle raisers destroyed the flocks [of sheep] by clubbing, shooting, dynamiting,..poisoning, and stampeding them over cliffs—a practice sometimes called rim-rocking. 1958‘W. Henry’ Seven Men at Mimbres Springs ix. 101 They're..crawling the rimrock to smell out what took Major Mobry off so suddenlike. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 27 June 5-d/8 (Advt.), Canyon setting surrounded by the rimrocks, nestled in Spring Valley.
1934Nat. Geogr. Mag. Feb. 213/2 My first companion, John Mullens, of Homestead, a ‘*rim-rocker’..steered me through in six days. 1950Amer. Speech XXV. 305 The term rimrockers goes back to the days of the cattle-sheep wars. 1968R. F. Adams Western Words (rev. ed.) 251/2 Rim rocker, a cowboy's name for a horse agile enough to climb steep hills and travel over rocks and rough country.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 370 A second band, which had..lain upon its loose pulley, upon a small driving pulley of the *rim-shaft.
1934E. Little Mod. Rhythmic Drumming 25 A characteristic feature of rhythmic drumming is the *rim-shot. This is the effect obtained by striking the snare drum head and the edge of the counter hoop simultaneously. 1968Crescendo May 30/3 Bellson's rhythm is tremendous. His sympathetic fills, from ‘cute’ rimshots to make-'em-'ave-it roar-ups kicking the phrases are worth the price of the record alone. 1977J. Wainwright Do Nothin' viii. 133 The right stick is used for the fireworks: for the rimshots, for the off-beats, for the roll-work.
1930W. M. Davis in Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. XLI. 485 *Rimstone has been added to the list to name calcareous deposits formed around the rims of overflowing basins. 1968R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 1051/1 Rimstone dams greater than 40 feet in height are known while micro-forms only a few millimetres high abound on stalagmites and flowstone. 1971Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 24 Jan. 5/3 Rimstones are the layers of calcite left by receding pools.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 369 For one revolution of the great *rim or fly wheel of the mule, the front roller makes about 6-tenths of a turn. 1894J. Lister Cotton Manuf. vi. 54 The main shaft drives the spindle by the rim wheel. 1950J. W. Radcliffe Woollen & Worsted Yarn Manuf. xxv. 351 (caption) Fast and loose pulleys, rim wheels for driving spindles, and the backing-off friction.
▪ II. rim, n.2 Now dial.
Forms: 1 réoma, réama, 4 reme; 4–6 rym(e, rime, 6 rysme, rism(m)e; 6–7 rimme, rymme, 7 rimm, 7– rim.
[OE. réoma (réama), = MDu. rieme (Du. riem), OS. reomo (MLG. rême; hence prob. ON. reim, Sw. and Da. rem), OHG. riumo, riomo (MHG. rieme, G. riemen), a leather strap or thong: see riem. The later forms of the Eng. word appear to have been influenced by rim n.1]
†1. A membrane, pellicle, caul. Obs.
c1000Sax. Leechd. III. 146 Þonne bið þæt bræᵹen utan mid reaman bewefen. c1050Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 380/1 Cartilago, se reoma þæs bræᵹenes. c1340Nominale (Skeat) 306 Poi vaut le crut del oef, lityl is worth the reme of an ey. c1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 520 A rym [v.r. reme] þat es ful wlatsome, Es his garment when he forth sal com, Þat es noght bot a blody skyn. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1343 Verayly þerafter Alle þe rymez by þe rybbez radly þay lance. c1500Kennedie Passion of Christ 768 Fra heid to fute þai brak baith hid and ryme [= rĭm]. 1545Elyot, Meninges, the rysme wherin the brain is inclosyd. 1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 35 A thinne skinne or rimme like a nette, encompassing the shell of a nutte. 1601Holland Pliny I. 342 Certain pellicles or rims of the Midriffe, which the Latines call Prœcordia.
†b. A scale or film upon the eyes. Obs.
1382Wyclif Tobit vi. 9 The galle is worth to eȝen to ben enointid, in the whiche were rime. Ibid. xi. 14 The ryme of his eȝen began, as the fellis of an ey, to gon out. 1580Frampton Yron & Steele in Joyful News (1596) 158 b, The pouder made of yron..taketh away the Rime from the eye.
†c. rim-side, the flesh-side of a skin. Sc. Obs.
1474Records Burgh Edinb. (1869) 29 Brekand schepe skinnis on the ryme sidis.
2. rim of the belly (womb, paunch, etc.), the peritoneum. Now dial.
[1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde 8 Vnder the last muskle of the belly..succedyth a certayn thyn ryme, kell, or skyn, named in latin Peritoneum.] 1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Ascistes, When betweene the rimme of the beally and the guttes is gathered..much watry humour. a1585Montgomerie Flyting 329 The rotten rim of thy wombe with rooke shall bee reivin. 1601Holland Pliny I. 321 Even as the rim of the paunch, which is called in Latine Centipellio. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. Democritus to Rdr. (1651) 27, I thinke he would breake the rimme of his belly with laughing. 1718Pope Iliad xiv. 521 Struck thro' the Belly's Rim, the Warrior lies Supine. 1757Burke Abridgm. Eng. Hist. Wks. X. 411 The rim of his belly was wounded; and this wound..proved fatal. 1804Med. Jrnl. XII. 258 A slight degree of anasarca extended to the rim of the belly. 1838Holloway Prov. Dict., Rim-of-the-body, the membrane lining the abdomen and covering the bowels. 1893Heslop Northumbld. Gloss. s.v., The rim of the belly is said to be broken when its muscles are lacerated or violently sprained.
b. ellipt. in the same sense.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, iv. iv. 15, I will fetch thy rymme out at thy Throat, in droppes of Crimson blood. 1607Markham Caval. ii. (1617) 94, I opened her with mine owne hands,..and I found that her rimme was broken, her call cleane consumed. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. ii. iv. 25 The second [concavity] of the Navell and Flancks, diuided from the first by the Rimme.
▪ III. rim, n.3 north. dial.
[= ON. rim (Norw. rim, reem) a rail or rung; cf. also Fris. rim shelf, LG. rimm cross-beam.]
A rung of a ladder.
1788W. Marshall Yorksh. II. 348 Rims, the steps or staves of a ladder. 1876Mid Yorks. Gloss., Rim, a spoke, or ‘rung’ of a ladder.
▪ IV. rim, v.1
[f. rim n.1]
1. trans. To furnish with a rim; to border, bound, or encircle in some way:
a. In pa. pple. rimmed.
1794W. Felton Carriages (1801) I. 113 The preservation of both wheels lies in the hoops that the wheels are rimmed with. 1812Southey in Q. Rev. VII. 431 His nails entered his own flesh, and were rimmed round with blood. 1869Blackmore Lorna D. xv, A bright green valley, rimmed with sheer black rock.
fig.1870Lowell Study Wind. (1886) 164 His experience, his sagacity are rimmed with a halo.
b. In active forms.
1842Tennyson Gardener's Dau. 177 A length of bright horizon rimm'd the dark. 1867J. Ingelow Story of Doom v. 78 Blue as the much-loved flower that rims the beck. 1876Farrar Marlb. Serm. x. 91 The God who..bids the sunset rim his very thunderclouds with golden light.
fig.1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 172 The sea still rimmed our prosy lives with mystery.
2. intr. Of a steel ingot: to form an outer skin of relatively pure steel. Also trans. (causatively).
1958A. D. Merriman Dict. Metallurgy 290/2 Steels which contain not more than 0·15% C can be made to ‘rim’. 1967A. H. Cottrell Introd. Metallurgy xi. 138 Only low-carbon steels contain enough oxygen to rim satisfactorily. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVII. 651/2 Plain carbon steels containing between 0·04 and 0·25 percent carbon can be rimmed successfully.
▪ V. rim, v.2 U.S.
[? var. of rime v.4]
trans. To slash (mackerel) on the sides, so as to make them appear fatter. (Cf. rimmer2.)
1890in Cent. Dict.
▪ VI. rim, v.3
[Perh. var. of ream v.3; cf. rim v.1 and rimmer3.]
1. a. intr. (See quot. 1923.) U.S. dial. b. trans. (See quot. 1972.) coarse slang (orig. U.S.).
1923Dialect Notes V. 219 Rim, v., to be desirous of sexual intercourse, wanting to be bred. Said especially of sows. 1959W. Burroughs Naked Lunch 90 ‘Darling, I want to rim you,’ she whispers... ‘All right. I'll go wash my ass.’ ‘No, I'll wash it.’ 1972B. Rodgers Queens' Vernacular 172 Rim, 1. To lick or suck anus. 2. to lubricate the anus with saliva, usually as a prelude to fucking. ‘Tense? Try getting rimmed.’ 1975M. Amis Dead Babies xv. 74 Skip'd rim a snake so long as someone held its head.
2. N. Amer. slang. To cheat, to swindle (a person). Cf. ream v.3 4.
1945V. J. Monteleone Criminal Slang 84 Rim,..to cheat; to swindle: to defraud. 1973D. Hughes Along Side Road vii. 54 Ten bucks? For that old thing? I'd be rimming you, Charles.
▪ VII. rim
var. rhiem; dial. var. rime v.4 |