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RAMMER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rammer mean?
• RAMMER (noun)
The noun RAMMER has 1 sense:
1. a tool for driving something with force
Familiarity information: RAMMER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A tool for driving something with force
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("rammer" is a kind of...):
ram (a tool for driving or forcing something by impact)
Derivation:
ram (strike or drive against with a heavy impact)
Context examples
They had the gun, by this time, slewed round upon the swivel, and Hands, who was at the muzzle with the rammer, was in consequence the most exposed.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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