单词 | printer's ream |
释义 | > as lemmasprinter's ream a. A quantity of paper, originally 20 quires or 480 sheets, now 500 sheets. Also: (in full printer's ream) 21½ quires or 516 sheets of printing paper. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > paper > [noun] > specific quantity of quatern?1533 ternion1609 quaternion1625 quinternion1652 bundle1724 ream1832 quinion1872 quire1879 sextern1885 α. β. 1494 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 320/2 Ane rym of paper.1568 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 293 Half a rim of paper..Half a rim of dim paper.1644–5 in J. Stuart Misc. Spalding Club (1852) V. 164 Tuo rim of paper for Montroiss use.1686 Laws & Acts 1st Parl. James VII. of Scotl. xxiv. 20 Paper for Printing and Writing of all sorts, every six Rims twelve shillings scots.1691 in A. W. C. Hallen Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 141 Rims.1759 D. Wynkoop Let. 24 May in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) II. 662 Rim Paper 20/.1482 in J. P. Collier Househ. Bks. John Duke of Norfolk & Thomas Earl of Surrey (1844) 303 ij. lb. almondes, and half a reme paper. 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 128 A reame of paper roiall, j reame & vij quires of small paper. 1545 Rates Custome House sig. ciij Paper the bale conteininge x. realme at. xvi.d. the realme. 1549 J. Cheke Let. 30 May in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) (Camden) 8 I prai yow bi me a reme of paper at London. 1630 J. Taylor Great Eater of Kent 9 Offring him, that for a wager he would deuoure 4. reame of his ballads; which in the totall are two thousand. 1653 tr. Math. Recreations (new ed.) lxxxiv. 188 To each book a reame or 20 quire of the largest and thinnest printing paper. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 353 Two of the twenty Quires in a Ream are called Cording Quires, viz. the two Out-side Quires. 1690 A. Wood Diary 20 Mar. in Life & Times (1894) III. 328 Bought..a reame of writing paper. 1707 tr. J. Monier de Clairecombe New & Universal Pract. Mercantile Arithm. i. xvi. 99 Divide the Product by the 500 Sheets, of which the Ream of Paper is compos'd. 1766 S. Clark Leadbetter's Royal Gauger (ed. 6) ii. xiv. 371 Tied up into Reams or Bundles for Sale. Note. That 18 of the good Quires, and 2 of the broken go to each Ream. 1770 Rhode Island Col. Session Laws 63 Whereas Messrs. Samuel and William Vernon exhibited unto this Assembly an Account, by them charged against the Colony, for a Ream of Paper to print the Acts and Orders of the General Assembly upon. 1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. ix. 46 Two hundred reams of paper were printed off. 1879 Printing Trades Jrnl. xxvi. 15 A hundred reams were actually made in Scotland and delivered in London in three days. 1906 R. W. Sindall Paper Technol. ix. 100 The bulk of a paper may be expressed in terms of the thickness of a single sheet or the thickness of a ream. 1988 H. Mantel Eight Months on Ghazzah St. 218 We've run out of photocopying paper. I'll have to go out tonight and buy a ream. < as lemmas |
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