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Webster 1913 Edition
Rammer
Ram′mer
(răm′mẽr)
, Noun.
One who, or that which, rams or drives.
Specifically: (a)
An instrument for driving anything with force;
as, a
. rammer
for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity(b)
A rod for forcing down the charge of a gun; a ramrod.
(c)
(Founding)
An implement for pounding the sand of a mold to render it compact.
Webster 1828 Edition
Rammer
RAM'MER
, n.1.
One that rams or drives.2.
An instrument for driving any thing with force; as a rammer for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity.3.
A gun-stick; a ramrod; a rod for forcing down the charge of a gun.Definition 2024
rammer
rammer
English
Noun
rammer (plural rammers)
- A device used to ram; a ramrod.
- Now use your rammer to pack it tightly into the barrel.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Household Words (volume 6, page 387)
- A "mooner," fond of staring into shop windows, or watching the labourers pulling up the pavement to inspect the gas-pipes, or listening stolidly to the dull "pech" of the paviour's rammer on the flags.
- Rudyard Kipling
- […] I put my waterproof over the muzzle of one gun, and made a sort of wigwam with two or three rammers that I found, and lay along the tail of another gun […]
- One who rams.
- When we meet head-on the question will be which of us will be the rammer and which the rammed.