BATTERING RAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does battering ram mean? 

• BATTERING RAM (noun)
  The noun BATTERING RAM has 1 sense:

1. a ram used to break down doors of fortified buildings

  Familiarity information: BATTERING RAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATTERING RAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A ram used to break down doors of fortified buildings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("battering ram" is a kind of...):

engine (an instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc.)

ram (a tool for driving or forcing something by impact)

 Context examples 

Thornton saw him coming, and, as Buck struck him like a battering ram, with the whole force of the current behind him, he reached up and closed with both arms around the shaggy neck.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)