ream
‘to form, shape, taper, or enlarge (a hole) with or as if with a reamer’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
M.E. reme ‘to make room, open up, extend by stretching’ < O.E. ryman ‘widen, extend, enlarge’ < Proto-G. rumijan < rumaz ‘spacious’ < ruma- ‘roomy, spacious’ < ree < reue- < Tamil uṟu