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reamer

Syllables: ream·erUS/ˈɹi.məɹ/

reamer noun: a tool for boring a hole wider.

reamer: a tool for boring a hole wider
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Noun

reamer (plural reamers)

  1. A tool for boring a hole wider.
    • 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.1977, Roger W. Autor Bolz, Production Processes: The Productivity Handbook, page 12-81
  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.
    • “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.”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)

Verb

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.

Proper noun capitalized: Reamer

Reamer (plural Reamers)

  1. A surname.

reamer meaning in Tamil

reamer in Tamil

அகற்சிக்கருவி, துளை சீராக்கி, துளை சீர்படுத்தும் உளி

Forms of reamer

Noun
pluralreamers
Verb
third-person singular presentreamers
present participlereamering
past participlereamered
pastreamered
Proper noun
pluralReamers

Origin of reamer

From ream + -er.

Words that rhyme with reamer

2 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about reamer

What does reamer mean?
Reamer means a tool for boring a hole wider.
What is reamer in Tamil?
Reamer in Tamil is அகற்சிக்கருவி, துளை சீராக்கி, துளை சீர்படுத்தும் உளி. See Reamer meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is reamer?
Reamer can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce reamer?
Reamer is pronounced /ˈɹi.məɹ/ (US).
What is the plural of reamer?
The plural of reamer is reamers.

Words near reamer in the dictionary

  1. reamended
  2. reamending
  3. reamendment
  4. reamendments
  5. reamends
  6. reamer
  7. reamered
  8. reamering
  9. reamers
  10. reames
  11. Reameses

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: reamer (page history and authors); Reamer (page history and authors); reamer (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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