rammer

From ram +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹæ.mə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)

rammer (plural rammers)

1. 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:

     […] 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 […]

   • 1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, The Dark Frigate, Chapter 6:

     The great guns ranged along the deck — each bound fast by its new breechings — with their linstocks and sponges and ladles and rammers, made no idle show of warlike strength.

2. 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.

• rammerman

rammer m or f

1. indefinite plural of ramme

rammer

1. present of ramme

rammer f

1. indefinite plural of ramme