ram

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Meaning

1. A male sheep, typically uncastrated.
2. A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.
3. A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.
4. 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.
7. A weight which strikes a blow, in a ramming device such as a pile driver, steam hammer, or stamp mill.

male sheep

ram down

ram tight

ram into

chock up

stick into

poke in

ram attack

steam-hammer

bang into

make a hole

tamping bar

punner

butterfly cichlid

thump out

ice ram

horned ram

duncish

dwarf cichlid

repair and maintenance

lifting-machine

pushing device

roentgen-equivalent-man

hammer block

ram in

R and M

Hitsuji

battering-ram

impinge on

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹæm/

From Middle English ram, rom, ramme, from Old English ramm (“ram”), from Proto-Germanic *rammaz (“ram”), possibly from *rammaz (“strong”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Rom (“ram”), Dutch ram (“a male sheep”), German Ramm, Ramme (“ram”). Possibly akin also to Danish ram (“sharp; acrid; rank”), Swedish ram (“strong; perfect”), Faroese ramur (“strong; competent”), Icelandic rammur (“strong; sturdy”).