Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CRAM, v.t. [Sax. crammian; Sw. krama; coinciding in sense and probably in origin with ram.]

1. To press or drive, particularly in filling or thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to crowd; to fill to superfluity; as, to cram any thing into a basket or bag; to cram a room with people; to cram victuals down the throat.
2. To fill with food beyond satiety; to stuff. Children would be more free from diseases, if they were not crammed so much by fond mothers. Locke.
3. To thrust in by force; to crowd. Fate has crammed us all into one lease. – Dryden.