For many weeks he "crams" him,—daily does he rehearse.
Poem before the Iadma of Harv. Coll., 1850.
A class of men arose whose business was to cram the candidates. —Lit. World, Vol. XII. p. 246.
In a wider sense, to prepare another, or one's self, by study, for any occasion.
The members of the bar were lounging about that tabooed precinct, some smoking, some talking and laughing, some poring over long, ill-written papers or large calf-bound books, and all big with the ponderous interests depending upon them, and the eloquence and learning with which they were "crammed" for the occasion.—Talbot and Vernon.
When he was to write, it was necessary to cram him with the facts and points.—F.K. Hunt's Fourth Estate, 1850.
CRAM. All miscellaneous information about Ancient History, Geography, Antiquities, Law, &c.; all classical matter not included under the heads of TRANSLATION and COMPOSITION, which can be learned by CRAMMING. Peculiar to the English Universities.—Bristed.
2. The same as CRAMMING, which see.
I have made him promise to give me four or five evenings of about half an hour's cram each.—Collegian's Guide, p. 240.
It is not necessary to practise "cram" so outrageously as at some of the college examinations.—Westminster Rev., Am. ed., Vol. XXXV. p. 237.
3. A paper on which is written something necessary to be learned, previous to an examination.