Rams

Word RAMS
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Definitions and meanings of "Rams"

What do we mean by rams?

A male sheep, typically uncastrated

A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.

A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.

A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.

A weight which strikes a blow, in a ramming device such as a pile driver, a steam hammer, a stamp mill.

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The word "rams" in example sentences

The Star Trek hype train rams the station next week and Vince Horiuchi of The Salt Lake Tribune laments the lack of good movies made from TV shows. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Five of the best battering-rams, that is, of the biggest of them, were placed upon Mount ❋ Unknown (2001)

"In the short-term rams fed excessive amounts of cereal based feeds prior to sale are likely to be infertile, usually for two to three months. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The seizure of the rams was a serious blow to the Confederate cause. ❋ Unknown (1917)

The "Southern party," however, had not quite given up hope, and the agitation to prevent the sailing of the rams was a keen spur to its flagging zeal. ❋ Unknown (1901)

The man looked and looked, but he could not tell which of the rams was his son, for they all looked alike to him, so he had to go home without him. ❋ Katharine Pyle (1900)

And this with the incense of rams, that is, with the fat of rams, which being burnt upon the altar, the smoke of it would ascend like the smoke of incense. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Five of the best battering-rams, that is, of the biggest of them, were placed upon Mount Hearken, a mount cast up hard by Ear - gate, with intent to break that open. ❋ John Bunyan (1658)

The devices are required to include several "rams" that can be activated to close off sections of the pipe if oil or gas were to come up the hole suddenly. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Six of the fourteen "rams" were lost, with sheer futility, at New Orleans in April, '62; the rest at Memphis the following ❋ William Charles Henry Wood (1905)

A typical result may be seen in the fate of the fourteen "rams" which were absurdly mishandled by fourteen independent civilian skippers with two civilian commodores. ❋ William Charles Henry Wood (1905)

It is from this feature in their construction that the name of "rams" has been given to these vessels. ❋ Unknown (1863)

They are provided with "rams" under the water-line, and have a strange apparatus by which about one-third of the deck towards the bow can be raised, like the lid of a snuff-box, leaving the forepart of the ship almost on a level with the water. ❋ Charles James Lever (1839)

Just about every working farm has animals that must occasionally be culled, such as male sheep they’re called rams, which can be dangerously feisty. ❋ Clark Frasier (2003)

The report alleges officers called the soon-to-be dead "rams" or "bush meat." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Those other "rams" were racin 'deals in a hectic 1st corner. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Heb. ` attud, only in plural; rendered "rams" (Gen. 31: 10, ❋ M.G. Easton (1897)

The Septuagint translates "rams," carrying out the image (compare Isa 14: 9, Margin; Zec 10: 3). days of your slaughter ... of ... dispersions -- rather, "your days for slaughter (that is, the time of your being slain), and your dispersions ❋ Unknown (1871)

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