dram

noun7

1. •
   A small unit of weight.
2. •
   Any similarly minute quantity, (now particularly) a small amount of strong alcohol or poison.

   • Were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evildoing. — 1644
3. •
   Synonym of dirhem: a former Turkish unit of weight (variously 1.5–3.5 g).

   • Dram (49·5 grains), 100=chequi, 4=oka (2·8286 ℔); dram (49·5 grains), 180=rotl, 100=kintal or kantar (127·29 ℔). — 1888
4. •
   The currency of Armenia, divided into 100 luma.
5. •
   (historical) A cart formerly used to haul coal in coal mines.

   • The rolling stock, consisting entirely of four-wheel open trucks, or drams, was broken up at Bonvilles Court Colliery. — 1946
6. •
   (no longer used) Synonym of drachma: a former Greek unit of weight (about 4.3 g).
7. •
   (no longer used) Synonym of drachma: a Greek silver coin weighing one drachma; other similar coins.

verb2

1. •
   (old-fashioned) To drink drams.

   • What I contend against is, this dramming, dramming, dramming, at all hours of the day. There are some men who take a glass at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and at four in the afternoon. — 1857
2. •
   (old-fashioned) To ply with drams of drink.

   • The parents[…]are getting ready their daughter for sale[…]praying her, and imploring her, and dramming her, and coaxing her. — 1854

noun1

1. •
   Initialism of dynamic random access memory.