Ram

Quick meaning: Ram is a noun meaning (zoology, agriculture) A male sheep, typically uncastrated.

Meaning

(zoology, agriculture) A male sheep, typically uncastrated.

More Meanings

1. A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.
2. (military, nautical, chiefly historical) A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.
3. (military, nautical, chiefly historical) A reinforced section of the bow of a warship, intended to be used for ramming other ships.
4. A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.
5. An act of ramming.
6. A weight which strikes a blow, in a ramming device such as a pile driver, steam hammer, or stamp mill.
7. (ambitransitive) To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function.

Example Sentences

The man, driving an SUV, then rammed the gate, according to police.

To build a sturdy fence, you have to ram the posts deep into the ground.

Two snatch thieves who snatched a woman's bag experienced swift karma when their victim accidentally rammed into their motorcycle.

About a couple of miles out lay an ironclad very low in the water, almost, to my brother's perception, like a water-logged ship. This was the ram Thunder Child.

Word Forms

• rams
• ramming
• rammed

Synonyms for ram

Depending on context, synonyms include drive, run, cram, pound, crash, jam.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pound, jampack, pack, cram, run, drive.

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