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rim
Part of speech: NounA border, edge, or margin of an object, especially when curving, or when raised.
Part of speech: VerbTo furnish with a border or edge; be a border around.
Part of speech: Past tenseRimmed.
Part of speech: Past participleRimming.
Usage examples "rim":- " The school was a great four- square stone buildin' beside a windy road, and niver a tree in sight; but pastures where the grass would cut your boot, an' stone walls, an' brown hills around, like the rim av a saucer. - "The Delectable Duchy", Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch.
- Trigger snapped the container shut, slipped the strap over her shoulder and stood straight, left hand closed over the lower rim of the purselike object. - "Legacy", James H Schmitz.
- The foreman, well along in years, and heavy, was too tired to draw himself over the rim without a moment's rest. - "Hopalong Cassidy", Clarence E. Mulford.