noun. A male sheep.

noun. Any of several devices used to drive, batter, or crush by forceful impact, especially.

noun. A battering ram.

noun. The weight that drops in a pile driver or steam hammer.

noun. The plunger or piston of a force pump or hydraulic press.

noun. A hydraulic ram.

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noun. A projection on the prow of a warship, used to batter or cut into enemy vessels.

noun. A ship having such a projection.

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transitive verb. To strike or drive against with a heavy impact; butt.

transitive verb. To force or press into place.

transitive verb. To cram; stuff.

transitive verb. To force passage or acceptance of.

noun. The male of the sheep, Ovis aries, and other ovine quadrupeds; a tup. See cuts under Ovis and quadricornous.

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Strong; as a prefix, very: used as a prefix in ramshackle, rambustious, etc.

Strong-scented; stinking: as, ram as a fox.

To strike with a ram; drive a ram or similar object against; batter: as, the two vessels tried to ram each other.

To force in; drive down or together: as, to ram down a cartridge; to ram a charge; to ram piles into the earth.

To fill or compact by pounding or driving.

To stuff as if with a ram; cram.

To beat or pound anything, in any of the transitive senses of ram.

noun. An instrument for battering, crushing, butting, or driving by impact.

noun. A solid pointed projection or beak jutting from the bow of a war-vessel, used both in ancient and in recent times for crushing in an enemy's vessel by being driven against it. See def. 2, and cut under embolon.

noun. The heavy weight of a pile-driving machine, which falls upon the head of the pile: same as monkey, 3.

noun. The piston in the large cylinder of a hydraulic press.

noun. A hooped spar used in ship-building for moving timbers by a jolting blow on the end.

noun. In metal-working, a steam-hammer used in forming a bloom.

noun. A steam ship of war armed at the prow below the water-line with a heavy metallic beak or spur, intended to destroy an enemy's ship by the force of collision.

noun. The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.

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noun. Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.

noun. The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name.

noun. An engine of war used for butting or battering.

noun. In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram.

noun. 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.

noun. A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.

noun. The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.

noun. The plunger of a hydraulic press.

noun. An ammonite.

transitive verb. 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

transitive verb. To fill or compact by pounding or driving.

noun. A male sheep.

noun. A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.

noun. A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.

noun. A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.

verb. To intentionally collide with (a ship) with the intention of damaging or sinking it.

verb. To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.

verb. crowd or pack to capacity