Ram
[ræm]
Definition
(noun.) uncastrated adult male sheep; 'a British term is `tup''.
(noun.) a tool for driving or forcing something by impact.
(verb.) strike or drive against with a heavy impact; 'ram the gate with a sledgehammer'; 'pound on the door'.
Checked by Gerald--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.
(n.) Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.
(n.) The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name.
(n.) An engine of war used for butting or battering.
(n.) In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.
(n.) The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.
(n.) The plunger of a hydraulic press.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Male sheep.[2]. Aries, the vernal sign.[3]. Battering-ram.[4]. Hydraulic ram, water-ram.
v. a. Drive down, force down.
Typed by Greta
Definition
n. a male sheep a tup: (astron.) Aries (q.v.) one of the signs of the zodiac: an engine of war for battering with a head like that of a ram: a hydraulic engine called water-ram: a ship-of-war armed with a heavy iron beak for running down a hostile vessel.—v.t. to thrust with violence as a ram with its head: to force together: to drive hard down:—pr.p. ram′ming; pa.t. and pa.p. rammed.—n. Ram′-head an iron lever for raising great stones: a cuckold.
adj. strong-scented: (used as a prefix) very.—n. Ram′-cat a tom-cat.—adj. Ram′mish strong-scented: lewd.—n. Ram′mishness.—adj. Ram′my.
adj. (her.) attired.
Typist: Randall
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that a ram pursues you, foretells that some misfortune threatens you. To see one quietly grazing denotes that you will have powerful friends, who will use their best efforts for your good. See Sheep and Lamb.
Checker: Marge
Examples
- They won't overturn the Constitution with our friend Brooke's head for a battering ram. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- What if we got one, and used it as a battering-ram against the door? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- With this vessel and the ram Webb, which they had had for some time in the Red River, and two other steamers, they followed the Indianola. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Ram collapsed with the collapse of the Fenian movement. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- That's what she did, said Joe, slowly clearing the fire between the lower bars with the poker, and looking at it; she Ram-paged out, Pip. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Equally well remembered is a dangerous encounter with a ram that attacked him while he was busily engaged digging out a bumblebee's nest near an orchard fence. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- She sot down, said Joe, and she got up, and she made a grab at Tickler, and she Ram-paged out. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Orders were shouted, but it was too late to save the giant propellers, and with a crash we rammed them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Some were rammed by the rear ships of their own side. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Then as the Carthaginian rammed or swept alongside, this _corvus_, as it was called, could be let down and the boarders could swarm aboard him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They, however, require increased power and longer time to ram down the ball in loading, and the risk of bursting the gun is increased if the ball be not rammed close upon the powder. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He saw his galleys rammed by the sharp prows of other galleys; his fighting-men shot down; his ships boarded. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I took with me six cows and two bulls alive, with as many ewes and rams, intending to carry them into my own country, and propagate the breed. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- In hydraulics there are rams, water closets, pumps, and turbine water wheels. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Against the walls he also moored ships in which towers and rams were erected. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Brass tubes can easily be bent by ramming full of sand, stopping the ends, and bending them over a curved surface. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The space occupied by this rammer in the rear of the gun is less than one foot, with a possible ramming stroke of fifteen feet. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Editor: Winthrop