rammer

ram +‎ -er

rammer (plural rammers)

1. 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.

   • Rudyard Kipling

     […] 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 […]

2. One who rams.

   When we meet head-on the question will be which of us will be the rammer and which the rammed.

rammer m or f

1. indefinite plural of ramme

rammer

1. present tense of ramme

rammer f

1. indefinite plural of ramme