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rammer en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈɹæ.mə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From ram + -er.

Meanings

1. A device used to ram; a ramrod.
   • 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. 1853, Charles Dickens, Household Words, volume 6, page 387:
   • […] 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 […] 1894 May, Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published June 1894, →OCLC:
   • 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. 1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, The Dark Frigate, Chapter 6:
   • Now use your rammer to pack it tightly into the barrel.
2. One who, or that, rams.
   • 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. 2014, Benerson Little, The Sea Rover's Practice:
   • the Zeppelin Rammer

Forms

Deriveds

rammerman

Translations (4)

bg трамбовка (tool) · cs pěchovadlo (tool) · gl pisón (tool) · gl macho (tool)