- a variation of rhyme.
rime
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At the rime, Qantas said it had agreed to pay the fine and that the ruling holds it accountable for actions that caused "real harm" to its employees.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2026
Crisp, opaque rime — now doesn’t that roll trippingly off the tongue?
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2022
Standing around amid the fumaroles, bison are sheeted with a hundred pounds of rime and icicles.
From Salon ● Apr. 21, 2019
We used to call these “family words” when I was a kid: rat, bat, cat, mat, etc., all have the “-at” rime with different consonant onsets.
From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2018
There had been a rime, Theresa remembered, when Helen had held the paper gingerly, to avoid getting her hands full of news-print.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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If the riming is particularly intense, the rimed snow crystal can grow to an appreciable size, but remain less than 0.2 inches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2023
On the beach the sand was frozen in crusts and rimed with frost.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 23, 2021
Pine needles grow their own ice needles, turning into rimed maces.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 18, 2019
On Christmas day in the morning, bellringers spit on their hands; they catch hold of the ropes that go up into rimed steeples.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Here at last the snow crown began,- Sky's weathered stones were rimed with frost, and long spears of ice hung from the slopes above.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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If the riming is particularly intense, the rimed snow crystal can grow to an appreciable size, but remain less than 0.2 inches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2023
I iz open in fine, finer, finish; dine, dining, and diner; rime, riming, and rimer; fi-ner, fi-nish, and so on: shut in fin, finnish; din, dinner; brim, brimmer; fin-nish, and simmilar.
From A Minniature ov Inglish Orthoggraphy by James Elphinston
The norm of the verse was the eight-syllabled riming couplet used in most of the English metrical romances of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Mr Morris suggests that the riming words are adoun and croune.
From The Lay of Havelok the Dane by Unknown
Thus in Pretty Polly, on page 7, 4aabb indicates a quatrain riming in couplets, with four stresses in each line.
From A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-Songs by Josiah Henry Combs
We've our business to attend Day's duties, bend back the bow in dreams as we may till the end rimes in the taut string with the sending.
From Time Magazine Archive
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That huge horn with its bands of old gold, incised with ancient rimes ... had Mance Rayder lied to him, or was Tormund lying now?
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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"His armor is bronze, thousands and thousands of years old, engraved with magic rimes that ward him against harm," she whis-pered to Jeyne.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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For half a heartbeat the rimes graven on the gold bands seemed to shimmer in the air.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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But none of these has left any enunciation of theory having power to thrill the ear and haunt the memory like the rimes of this young untrained recruit, John Keats.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Sidney Colvin
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