crammern.
/ˈkramə/, U.S. /ˈkræmər/ 1.
a. One who crams or fattens poultry, etc.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [noun] > feeding poultry > fattener
crammer1655
higgler1830
1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. vi. 44 The best fatning of all fowl, is first to feed them with good meat..Secondly, to give it them not continually as crammers do.
b. An apparatus used in cramming poultry.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > poultry-rearing equipment
nest-egg1579
mother1807
brood-basket1848
incubator1857
crammer1887
foster-mother1907
1887 N.Y. Weekly Witness Apr. 13 The Sussex cramming machine..At the end of the crammer..is a funnel-shaped opening.
2. colloquial.
a. One who ‘crams’ pupils for an examination, etc.; more rarely, a student who ‘crams’ a subject. (Cf. cram v. 6.)
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society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > professional teacher > crammer
feeder1766
puffer1786
crammer1814
grinder1814
cram1861
cram-coach1885
1814 M. Edgeworth Patronage I. iii. 83 Put him into the hands of a clever grinder, or crammer, and they would soon cram the necessary portion of latin and greek into him.
1888 F. Harrison in 19th Cent. Nov. 645 Thereupon grew up another class of specialists—the Crammers. Their business is, not to teach, nor to test teaching; but to enable students to pass the tests.
b. An institution where pupils are ‘crammed’ for examinations. Frequently in the possessive.
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society > education > place of education > school > [noun] > other types of school
writing schoola1475
rectory1536
spelling school1704
greycoat1706
rural school1734
Charter School1763
home school1770
Philanthropine1797
British school1819
side school1826
prep school1829
trade school1829
Progymnasium1833
finishing-school1836
field schoola1840
field school1846
prairie school1851
graded school1852
model school1854
Philanthropinum1856
stagiary school1861
grade school1869
middle school1870
language school1878
correspondence school1889
day continuation school1889
prep1891
Sunday school1901
farm school1903
weekend school1907
Charter School1912
folk high school1914
pre-kindergarten1922
Rabfak1924
cram-shop1926
free school1926
crammer1931
composite school1943
outward-bound1943
blackboard jungle1954
pathshala1956
Vo-Tech1956
St. Trinian's1958
juku1962
cadre school1966
telecentre1967
academy2000
academy school2000
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Oct. 827/3 After Harrow and a crammer's, Marling..in 1880 went straight from Sandhurst to join his battalion.
1955 Times 25 June 7/5 We want all our schools to be educators of men, not crammers of examinees.
1967 M. Meyer Ibsen i. ii. 68 The final preparations for his matriculation examination, which would involve spending a term at a crammer's in Christiania.
1986 Daily Tel. 11 June 15/1 The spectre of January retakes at some smart London crammer.
3. slang. A lie. (Cf. cram v. 5, cram n. 3.)
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > a falsehood, lie
liec900
leasingc1000
falsehoodc1290
falsedom1297
gabbinga1300
fablec1300
follyc1300
fittenc1440
untruthc1449
crackc1450
fallacy1481
falsity1557
falsedict1579
untroth1581
crackera1625
flam1632
mendacity1646
fairy story1692
false1786
whid1794
gag1805
wrinkle1819
reacher1828
cram1842
untruism1845
crammer1861
inveracity1864
bung1882
fairy tale1896
mistruth1897
post-and-rails1945
pork pie1973
porky1985
1861 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon xi, in Temple Bar Apr. 31 Every other word he says is a crammer.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms 105 That's why she made me tell all those crammers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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