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Ram   /ræm/   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.


verb
Ram  v. t.  (past & past part. rammed; pres. part. ramming)  
1.
To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc. "(They) rammed me in with foul shirts, and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins."
2.
To fill or compact by pounding or driving. "A ditch... was filled with some sound materials, and rammed to make the foundation solid."





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"Ram" Quotes from Famous Books



... and the east conflagrations roared and crackled, where burning oil had been scattered over some remaining structures near the walls. When a great ram began its thunder somewhere near the Sheep Gate, there came a hollow booming noise of deafening volume from the charnel pits outside the walls and a black cloud of incredible depth soared up into ...
— The City of Delight - A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem • Elizabeth Miller
... the Merrimac bore down on the Monitor now to ram and sink her at a blow. The nimble craft side stepped the avalanche of iron, turned quickly and attempted to jamb her nose into the steering gear of the ...
— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon
... shields of Scottish nobles. There were beasts that could be recognised at once, and these were sparingly named; but others were astounding, and above them were inscribed titles such as these: Shoe-lyon, Musket, Ostray; and one fearsome animal in the centre was designated the Ram of Arabia. This display of heraldry and natural history was reinforced by the cardinal virtues in seventeenth century dress: Charitas as an elderly female of extremely forbidding aspect, receiving two very imperfectly clad children; and Temperantia ...
— Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers • Ian Maclaren
... he's busted my best teeth in. Hunt round and find something for a battering ram," cried another voice, but though the assailants had possibly not caught all the answer, they evidently understood the strength of our position, for we heard them ...
— Lorimer of the Northwest • Harold Bindloss
... so school was dismissed for the day. Peter didn't go straight home. Instead he went up to the Old Pasture for another look at the old ram there and tried to picture to himself just what Bighorn must look like. Especially he looked at the hoofs ...
— The Burgess Animal Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess


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