ppl. a. [f. CRAM v.]

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  1.  Stuffed full beyond the natural capacity; spec. fattened for the table.

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1587.  Gascoigne, Flowers, Wks. 73. The crammed fowle comes quickly to his death.

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1650.  Bulwer, Anthropomet., xxii. 241. As fat as cram’d Capons.

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1755.  Mem. Capt. P. Drake, I. xvi. 161. A Couple of crammed Fowls, with Oyster Sauce.

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1808.  J. Barlow, Columb., VII. 595. No cramm’d cartouch their belted back attires.

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  2.  colloq. Of a lesson, etc.: ‘Got up’ hastily for the occasion. Of a student: Prepared for an examination by ‘cramming.’

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1837.  Beaconsfield, Corr. w. Sister, 21 Nov. L— made a crammed speech like a schoolboy.

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1890.  Daily News, 14 Aug., 2/7. The crammer has given his pupils ‘tips’ out of Goethe [etc.], which the crammed reproduce more or less inaccurately and unintelligently.

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  Hence Crammedness, state of being crammed.

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1802.  W. Taylor, in Robberds, Mem., I. 410. There is not that crammedness of population.

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