Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A book specially prepared for ‘cramming’ a subject for an examination.
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Examples
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I passed my First Arts Examination in Calcutta that was all in the cram-book on Wordsworth.
The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900
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First Arts Examination in Calcutta that was all in the cram-book on
Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900
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"Faith is the faculty by which we are enabled to believe that which we know is not true," replied the undergraduate, who had learned his definition by heart, but imperfectly, from a popular cram-book.
Collections and Recollections George William Erskine Russell 1886
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