reamer

noun, verb — 6 senses

reamer

noun

US /ˈɹi.məɹ/

Etymology From ream + -er.

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):

reamer

verb

Etymology From ream + -er.

1

To use a reamer on something; to clear out something using a reamer.

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