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▪ I. crammer|ˈkræmə(r)|
[f. cram v. + -er1.]
1. One who crams or fattens poultry, etc.
b. An apparatus used in cramming poultry.
1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improvem. (1746) 119 The best fattening of all Fowl, is, First, to feed them with good Meat..Secondly, To give it them not continually, as Crammers do. 1887N.Y. Weekly Witness Apr. 13 The Sussex cramming machine..At the end of the crammer..is a funnel-shaped opening.
2. colloq.
a. One who ‘crams’ pupils for an examination, etc.; more rarely, a student who ‘crams’ a subject. (Cf. cram v. 6.)
1813M. Edgeworth Patron. I. iii. 49 Put him into the hands of a clever grinder or crammer, and they would soon cram the necessary portion of Latin and Greek into him. 1888F. Harrison in 19th Cent. Nov. 645 Thereupon grew up another class of specialists—the Crammers. Their business is, not to teach, nor to test teaching; but to enable students to pass the tests.
b. An institution where pupils are ‘crammed’ for examinations. Freq. in the possessive.
1931Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Oct. 827/3 After Harrow and a crammer's, Marling..in 1880 went straight from Sandhurst to join his battalion. 1955Times 25 June 7/5 We want all our schools to be educators of men, not crammers of examinees. 1967M. Meyer Ibsen i. ii. 68 The final preparations for his matriculation examination, which would involve spending a term at a crammer's in Christiania. 1986Daily Tel. 11 June 15/1 The spectre of January retakes at some smart London crammer.
3. slang. A lie. (Cf. cram v. 5, n. 3.)
1862Sala Seven Sons I. xi. 287 Every other word he says is a crammer. 1890Boldrewood Robbery under Arms 105 That's why she made me tell all those crammers.
▪ II. crammer
var. cramer, Sc., pedlar, etc. |