Ramrod
['ræmrɒd] or ['ræm'rɑd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a rod used to ram the charge into a muzzle-loading firearm.
(noun.) a rod used to clean the barrel of a firearm.
(noun.) a harshly demanding overseer.
艾伯纳錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm.
整理:玛丽
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Rammer.
校對:史蒂文
解釋/意思:
n. a rod used in ramming down the charge in a gun.—n. Ram′rod-bay′onet.—adj. Ram′roddy stiff like a ramrod.
伯特校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of a ramrod, denotes unfortunate adventures. You will have cause for grief. For a young woman to see one bent or broken, foretells that a dear friend or lover will fail her.
海尔格校對
例句/造句/用法:
- As the arquebus succeeded the bow and arrow, so the musket, a smooth and single-barrel muzzle-loader with a flint-lock and a wooden ramrod, succeeded the arquebus. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- After they had introduced the musket with the snap-haunce and wooden ramrod, it became known, in the time of Queen Elizabeth, as the Brown Bess. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- They have brought cannon balls, broken ramrods, fragments of shell--iron enough to freight a sloop. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
錄入:威廉姆斯