rams

Noun

ram (plural rams)

1. A male sheep, typically uncastrated.
2. A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.
   • The solid oak door—he fingered it again—was as though made to resist a ram, the walls built to withstand a siege, and every stone and brick in wall, bench, or floor was as immovable as the face of a rock.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London
3. (historical) A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.
   • About a couple of miles out lay an ironclad very low in the water, almost, to my brother's perception, like a water-logged ship. This was the ram Thunder Child.1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 178
4. (historical) A reinforced section of the bow of a warship, intended to be used for ramming other ships.
5. A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.
6. An act of ramming.

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