1 the edge of sth that is circular:
He looked at them over the rim of his glass. * The rims of her eyes were red with crying. * spectacles with gold rims
2 the metal edge of a wheel onto which the tyre is fixed
3 (-rimmed) adjective having a particular type of rim:
gold-rimmed spectacles * red-rimmed eyes (= for example, from crying)
seealsoHORN-RIMMED
verb (-mm-) [VN] [oftenpassive] (formal) to form an edge around sth
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is rim a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, rim is tagged as noun.
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