Children would be freer from disease if they were not crammed so much as they are by fond mothers.
Locke.
Cram us with praise, and make us
As fat as tame things.
Shak.
3. To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination; as, a pupil is crammed by his tutor.
Cram, v. i. 1. To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff.
Gluttony . . . .
Crams, and blasphemes his feeder.
Milton.
2. To make crude preparation for a special occasion, as an examination, by a hasty and extensive course of memorizing or study. [Colloq.]
Cram, n. 1. The act of cramming.