rammer
/ˈɹæ.mə(ɹ)/
rammer noun: a device used to ram; a ramrod.
Noun
rammer (plural rammers)
- 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.1853, Charles Dickens, Household Words, volume 6, page 387
- 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.2014, Benerson Little, The Sea Rover's Practice
rammer meaning in Tamil
rammer in Tamil
- மொங்கான், திமிசு, மண்ணை அடித்து இறுக்கும் கருவி
Examples of rammer in a sentence
- […] 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:
Forms of rammer
| plural | rammers |
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Origin of rammer
From ram + -er.
Words formed from rammer
Words that rhyme with rammer
Questions about rammer
- What does rammer mean?
- Rammer means a device used to ram; a ramrod.
- What is rammer in Tamil?
- Rammer in Tamil is மொங்கான், திமிசு, மண்ணை அடித்து இறுக்கும் கருவி. See Rammer meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use rammer in a sentence?
- […] 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 […]
- What part of speech is rammer?
- Rammer is a noun.
- How do you pronounce rammer?
- Rammer is pronounced /ˈɹæ.mə(ɹ)/.
- What is the plural of rammer?
- The plural of rammer is rammers.
Words near rammer in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rammer (page history and authors); rammer (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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