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Rammer means A device used to ram; a ramrod..
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/ˈɹæ.mə(ɹ)/ · noun
A device used to ram; a ramrod..
Now use your rammer to pack it tightly into the barrel.
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.
[…] 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 […]
The great guns ranged along the deck — each bound fast by its new breechings — with their linstocks and sponges and ladles and rammers, made no idle show of warlike strength.
the Zeppelin Rammer
The loader […] placed the cartridge in the muzzle and shoved it in as far as he could. The rammer rammed it home, the gun captain inserting his priming wire to make sure.
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Rammer means A device used to ram; a ramrod..
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Now use your rammer to pack it tightly into the barrel.
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