rammer
English
Etymology
ram + -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɹæ.mə(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)
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.
- 1894 May, Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published June 1894, OCLC 752934375:
- […] 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, or that, rams.
- the Zeppelin Rammer
- 2014, Benerson Little, The Sea Rover's Practice
- The loader […] placed the cartridge in the muzzle and shoved it in as far as he could. The rammer rammed it home, the gun captain inserting his priming wire to make sure.
Derived terms
- rammerman
Translations
tool
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Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
rammer m or f
- indefinite plural of ramme
Verb
rammer
- present of ramme
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
rammer f
- indefinite plural of ramme