rimmed, a.
(rɪmd)
[f. rim n.1 or v.1]
1. Having a rim of a specified colour, form, material, etc.
| 1729 Dampier's Voy. (ed. 3) III. 425 The Black-rimm'd Butterfly. 1818 Keats Endymion i. 50 Before the daisies, vermeil rimm'd and white, Hide in deep herbage. 1850 R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (1902) 145/2 He..wore a broad-rimmed hat. 1887 Browning Parleyings, B. de Mandeville iv, Thy gold-rimmed amber-headed cane. |
2. Having or furnished with a rim.
| 1777 Pennant Brit. Zool. IV. 52 marg., Asterias, irregularis, rimmed. 1792 Trans. Soc. Arts III. 166 Whether mortice, case, or rimmed locks. 1833 Loudon Encycl. Archit. §1805 On each is to be a 7-inch iron and rimmed lock. |
3. rimmed steel = rimming steel s.v. rimming (ppl.) a.
| 1926 Iron Age CXVII. 1778 (heading) Rimmed steel and how it is made. 1926 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. CXIV. 579 The particular physical features of an ingot of good rimmed steel are a solid outer skin and certain gas-holes. 1959 Ibid. CXCI. 231 A statistical investigation into the existence of a functional relationship between tapping slag iron and carbon and manganese losses in rimmed steels. 1963 W. H. Dennis Metallurgy of Ferrous Metals xiii. 199 Rimmed steels possess a high degree of cleanliness. |