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▸ noun: The topmost lip or rim of a container, or a natural feature shaped like a container.
▸ noun: A projecting rim, especially of a hat.
▸ noun: (archaic or poetic) The upper edge or surface of water.
▸ noun: (obsolete)
▸ noun: The surface of the ground.
▸ noun: (figurative) A brink or edge.
▸ verb: (transitive)
▸ verb: To fill (a container) to the brim (noun sense 1.1), top, or upper edge.
▸ verb: (figurative) To fill (something) fully.
▸ verb: (intransitive, also figurative) To be full until almost overflowing.
▸ noun: (obsolete) The sea; ocean; water; flood.
▸ noun: (Australia, US) Synonym of bream (“a freshwater fish from one of a number of genera”); specifically (US), the redbreast sunfish (Lepomis auritus).
▸ verb: (transitive) Of a boar (“male pig”): to mate with (a sow (“female pig”)); to rut.
▸ verb: (intransitive) Of a sow: to be in heat; to rut; also, to mate with a boar.
▸ noun: (archaic) The period when a sow (“female pig”) is ready to mate; a heat, an oestrus, a rut; also, an act of a boar (“male pig”) and sow mating.
▸ adjective: (obsolete except Northern England, Scotland or poetic) Synonym of breme (“of the sea, wind, etc.: fierce; raging; stormy, tempestuous”)
▸ noun: (UK, slang, obsolete except dialectal) An irascible, violent woman.
▸ noun: A surname.
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