A long spar, iron-hooped at the ends, used for driving out blocks from beneath a vessel's keel, and for driving planks an end while only wedged to the ship's side. Also, a new rating in the navy. (See steam-ram.)
·noun The plunger of a hydraulic press. II. Ram ·vt To fill or compact by pounding or driving. III...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
elevated; sublime ...
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Exalted. 1) The son of Hezron, and one of the ancestors of the royal line (Ruth 4:19). The margin o...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
(high, exalted). • A son of Hezron and the father of Ammin-adab, born in Egypt after Jacob's migrat...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·noun A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally. II. Battering-ram ·noun An engine ...
·- An hydraulic ram. ...
(Ezek. 4:2; 21:22), a military engine, consisting of a long beam of wood hung upon a frame, for maki...
In Cock Lane (Strype, ed. 1755-L. Guide, 1758) Qy. = Ram Inn, West Smithfield. Name derived from t...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
1) On the south side of Fenchurch Street, at the western end. In Langbourne Ward (Strype, 1720 and 1...
A he cat. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
See ram. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
An old word for halliard-block. ...
Synonymous with bull-dance. ...
A new order of war-vessel, fitted for running prow on against an enemy's ship, to stave her in by cr...
To drive home the ammunition in a gun. ...
See Hare Place. ...