cramming

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of cram

plural crammings

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 […]

   1838, John Sanderson, Sketches of Paris: in familiar letters to his friends

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, […]

   1885, Journal of Education, volume 7, page 391