rammer

English

Etymology

From ram +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹæ.mə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)

Noun

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 […]

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.

Derived terms

• rammerman

Translations

tool

• Bulgarian: трамбовка f (trambovka)
• Galician: pisón m, macho (gl) m

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

rammer m or f

1. indefinite plural of ramme

Verb

rammer

1. present of ramme

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

rammer f

1. indefinite plural of ramme