Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
riem .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun South Africa A strip of oxhide, deprived of hair, and rendered pliable, -- used for twisting into ropes, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun South Africa A
strip ofoxhide , deprived ofhair and madepliable , used fortwisting intoropes , etc.
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Examples
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Bandied from one department to another, humiliated, reim - prisoned, released, harangued, he had preserved his dignity and his policies throughout.
Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965
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Maliwe then closed the gate, tied it securely with a reim, and pulled several large bushes against it.
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They were perfectly naked, except that each wore the usual stert reim.
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"What the green reim does teach them," explained Lady Hannah, secretly aghast at her own temerity, "is, not to be found out next time."
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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After that none of the servants would pass near these two graves later than sundown, and Bough welted the Barala boy with an ox-reim for scaring silly jades of women with lying tales.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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Bough took an ox-reim then, that was coiled behind his saddle, and bound her hands.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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Then Bough bent over and drew his long hunting-knife and cut the reim, leaving her hands still bound.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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The Cape boys who tramped, each leading a fore-ox by the green reim bound about the creature's wide horns, had no energy left even to swear at their beasts.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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Never a fib since last I gave him the ox-reim end to taste.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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This little incident put me into rather a better humour, especially as the buck had rolled over right against the after-part of the waggon, so I had only to gut him, fix a reim round his legs, and haul him up.
Long Odds Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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