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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Ram

Ram (ram)
n.(r1913 webster dictionarym)
Ram
[AS. ramm, ram; akin to OHG. *** D. ram, Prov. G. ramm, and perh. to Icel. ramr strong.]

  1. The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.
  2. Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.
    (b)
  3. An engine of war used for butting or battering.
    Specifically: (a)
  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.] Farrow. (b) (Paleon.) An ammonite.

Ram

Ram (ram)
v. t.
Ram
  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. Shak.

  2. To fill or compact by pounding or driving.

    A ditch . . . was filled with some sound materials, and rammed to make the foundation solid. Arbuthnot.













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