Definition of riem in English:
riem
(also riempie)
nounPlural riempies, Plural riems riːmrɪm
South African A strip of rawhide or worked leather, used as a rope or in making chairs and other furniture.
〈南非〉（用作绳子或制作椅子等的）皮条
Example sentencesExamples
- The waentjies had functioning disselbooms, jukke and skeie complete with carefully cut riempies spantoue for inspanning the oxen.
- There are 230 drummers, mostly banging on riempie drums, with a core unit of 15 bigger djembe drums carrying the sound.
- Smith says the riempie chair is to an extent a symbol of his own culture or tribe, ‘an object of craft or design which presents an opportunity to deconstruct, reinterpret and reassemble’.