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Ram's horn   /ræmz hɔrn/   Listen
noun
Ram  n.  
1.
The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.
2.
(Astron.)
(a)
Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.
(b)
The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name.
3.
An engine of war used for butting or battering. Specifically:
(a)
In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram.
(b)
A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak.
4.
A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.
5.
The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.
6.
The plunger of a hydraulic press.
Ram's horn.
(a)
(Fort.) A low semicircular work situated in and commanding a ditch. (Written also ramshorn)
(b)
(Paleon.) An ammonite.





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"Ram's horn" Quotes from Famous Books



... says: "Thy whittle seems to me both good and strange, John, reach it into my hand." John did so, and the youngling takes hold of it by the back near the point with his thumb and finger, and twists it till it is like a ram's horn. Then he gives it back to John and says: "Thy knife is now stranger than it was, John, but 'tis not of so much use as erst." All marvelled at this feat, all save the fool Surly John, who raises a great outcry that his knife is marred. But Hardcastle, whose head was now pretty much ...
— The Sundering Flood • William Morris
... Michael Praetorius.[15] They consist of the Grosser Bock or double-bass bag-pipe, a formidable-looking instrument with a single cylindrical drone of a great length, terminating, as did the chaunter also, in a curved ram's horn (to which the name was due). The chaunter had seven finger-holes and a vent-hole in front, and a thumb-hole at the back. The drone was tuned to G, an ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 - "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" • Various
... it," said the Hetman crossly. "This is not roast; it is ram's horn. Really Koukou is beginning to ...
— Atlantida • Pierre Benoit


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