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English
Etymology
From ram + -er.
Pronunciation
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:[…] 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.
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.
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Translations
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