Rim

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɹɪm/
• Rhymes: -ɪm

From Middle English rim, rym, rime, from Old English rima ("rim, edge, border, bank, coast"), from Proto-Germanic *rimô, *rembô ("edge, border"), from Proto-Indo-European *rem-, *remə- ("to rest, support, be based"). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Rim ("plank, wooden cross, trellis"), Icelandic rimi ("a strip of land").

Full definition of rim

Noun

1. An edge around something, especially when circular.
2. (automotive, cycling) wheelrim

Verb

1. To form a rim on.
2. To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuitPalm trees rim the beach.A walking path rims the island.
3. (of a ball) To roll around a rim.The golf ball rimmed the cup.The basketball rimmed in and out.

From Middle English rim, rym, ryme, reme, from Old English rēoma ("membrane, ligament"), from Proto-Germanic *reumô ("belt, thong"), from Proto-Indo-European *rew- ("to tear, dig, gather"). Cognate with Dutch riem ("a thong"), German Riemen ("a thong, band"), Swedish rem ("a thong, strap").

Noun

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

From a variation of ream.

Verb

1. (slang) to lick the anus of a partner as part of the sexual act.
• 2008, Lexy Harper, Bedtime Erotica for Freaks (Like Me), page 216When she started thrusting her hips back against his finger, he turned her over and rimmed her asshole as he fingered her clit.

Anagrams

• IRM, mir, Mir, MIR, MRI