\Cram\ (kr[a^]m), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crammed} (kr[a^]md);
p. pr. & vb. n. {Cramming}.] [AS. crammian to cram; akin to
Icel. kremja to squeeze, bruise, Sw. krama to press. Cf.
{Cramp}.]
1. To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in
   thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to
   fill to superfluity; as, to cram anything into a basket;
   to cram a room with people.
         Their storehouses crammed with grain. --Shak.
         He will cram his brass down our throats. --Swift.
2. To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.
         Children would be freer from disease if they were
         not crammed so much as they are by fond mothers.
                                               --Locke.
         Cram us with praise, and make us As fat as tame
         things.                               --Shak.
3. To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing
   or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a
   pupil is crammed by his tutor.

\Cram\, v. i.
1. To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
         Gluttony . . . . Crams, and blasphemes his feeder.
                                               --Milton.
2. To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an
   examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing
   or study. [Colloq.]

\Cram\, n.
1. The act of cramming.
2. Information hastily memorized; as, a cram from an
   examination. [Colloq.]
3. (Weaving) A warp having more than two threads passing
   through each dent or split of the reed.