- 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
Fittingly, the summit was a surreal, malevolent place, an improbably slender wedge of rock and rime no wider than a file cabinet.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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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
But there is consummate shrewdness in some of the things Vishnu-sharman related, putting his epigrams now into tales within tales, now into rimed quotations from religious writ.
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
In my poetic version an attempt has been made to render the riming and metrical effect of the original, which is believed to date from about the ninth century.
From The High Deeds of Finn and other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by Stephen Reid
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 actor Garrick dragged into a prologue a riming and sneering reference to the mystery; the artist Hogarth invoked his genius to deride it.
From Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters by H. Addington (Henry Addington) Bruce
It does not follow that the chronological order of the individual plays could be exactly determined by their percentage of riming lines, for subject matter makes a great difference.
From An Introduction to Shakespeare by H. N. MacCracken
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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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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"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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Thus, at the age of twenty-five, he took more interest in scribbling stories and searching for rimes than in toting up the proceeds of sales at Chicago stock-yards.
From The Late Tenant by Louis Tracy
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