Synonyms:
rim
Meaning: the shape of a raised edge of a more or less circular object
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
rim
Meaning: run around the rim of; "Sugar rimmed the dessert plate"
Usage examples
Harrington pushed one of his pieces out along a radial line toward the rim.
Once when this one alighted on the rim of her nest she whirred herself right down inside.
It is a mixing bowl of pure silver, except the rim, which is inlaid with gold, and it is the work of Vulcan.
"Let us work, then, and get these bags all arranged on the rim of the car, so that they may be thrown overboard at one movement."
THE RIM ROUND THE EYES in the black-spotted variety should be black, in the liver-spotted variety brown--never flesh-colour in either.
Line a large round plate with the paste, place a narrow rim of the same round the outer edge, and lay the apples thickly in the middle.
Joe leaped out, holding on the while to the rim of the car with one hand, and with the other gathering up a quantity of stones equal to his own weight.
There was the old grisly four-post bedstead, without hangings, and with a jail-like upper rim of iron and spikes; and there was the old patch-work counterpane.
Only by making it clear I would distract him until he told me what I wanted to know could I get him to turn from his absorbed contemplation of that phantom dance between the sea rim and the shine.
In looking through a field-glass I do not wish to perceive the lenses nor to see rainbows about their rim; yet I should not wish the eye itself to lose its pigments and add no dyes to the bulks it discerns.