cramming

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of cram

noun

1. The act by which something is crammed, or stuffed full.

   “In some parts of the house were all the comforts of elbowings, shufflings, crammings and squeezings, and on the outside all the racket that was possible of screaming women, and wrangling coachmen […]”

2. An intensive course of hard study, as for an examination.

   “And, what with innumerable numbers of stiff and stiffer and stiffest competitions and examinations and crammings and general papers bristling at all angles, […]”