rim

Universal Words noun, verb noun 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