rammer
noun/ˈɹæ.mə(ɹ)/
Etymology
Definitions
A device used to ram
A device used to ram; a ramrod.
- Now use your rammer to pack it tightly into the barrel.
- 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.
- […] 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
- 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.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for rammer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA