rims

Noun (1)

rim (plural rims)

1. An edge around something, especially when circular.
   • That's... our galaxy. We're beyond the rim.2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Master Chief (Steve Downes), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: The Ark
2. A wheelrim.
   • About an hour later, she noticed an all black Phantom with tints and chrome rims riding slowly through the car lot.2010, Rochelle Magee, No Witnesses: A Perilous Journey, page 36
3. A semicircular copydesk.
   • COPY READER — Journeyman, experienced makeup, now slot man on metropolitan midwest daily. Will travel for good rim job on large paper.1953 September 26, Editor & Publisher 1953-09-26: Vol 86 Iss 40
4. The narrow surface of wine that meets the glass when it is tilted, used in identifying the age, body, etc.

Noun (2)

rim (plural rims)

1. (UK, dialectal) A membrane.
2. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) The membrane enclosing the intestines; the peritoneum, hence loosely, the intestines; the lower part of the abdomen; belly.
   • Moy shall not serve; I will have forty moys; / Or I will fetch thy rim out at thy throat / In drops of crimson blood.1599, Shakespeare, King Henry V, act iV, scene IV - Pistol to a captured French soldier from whom he wants a ransom and whom he does not understand

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