Definitions for rimmed

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Spelling: [rimd]

IPA: /rɪmd/

Rimmed is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in rimmed (deimmr).

Definitions for rimmed

noun

1. the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object.
2. any edge, margin, or frame added to or around a central object or area.
3. the outer circle of a wheel, attached to the hub by spokes.
4. a circular strip of metal forming the connection between an automobile wheel and tire, either permanently attached to or removable from the wheel.
5. a drive wheel or flywheel, as on a spinning mule.
6. Basketball. the metal ring from which the net is suspended to form the basket.
7. Journalism. the outer edge of a usually U -shaped copy desk, occupied by the copyreaders. Compare slot1 (def 5b).
8. Metallurgy. (in an ingot) an outer layer of metal having a composition different from that of the center.

adjective

1. having a rim:
2. having a rim of a specified kind (often used in combination):

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with a rim, border, or margin.
2. (of a golf ball or putt) to roll around the edge of (a hole) but not go in.
3. Basketball. (of a basketball) to roll around (the rim of the basket) and not go in.
4. to coat or encrust the rim of (a glass):

Origin of rimmed

First recorded in 1720-30; rim + -ed³

Examples for rimmed

He went on until the sun was low in the west and all the sky was rimmed with color.

Her eyes, rimmed with red from crying, were pools of darkness in her pale face.

Strain into a chilled snifter glass, rimmed with smoked-chipotle dust.

She scrunched her nose and leaned in to examine the creases and dark circles that rimmed her eyes.

While these lashes were not long, they were thick and rimmed her eyes with a fine, thin line.

The German Panzers fought with suicidal ferocity, storming the hill until it was rimmed with a bulwark of bodies.

Each fountain was rimmed with a little shelf on which was a ring of glasses.

The sun had set, but it left walls and portals of cloud tinged and rimmed with fire.

The invaders fired blindly into the darkness that rimmed the deck.

The iris of the eye is brown—often rimmed with a lighter or darker ring.