ram
/ɹæm/ noun B2- A male sheep, typically uncastrated.
- A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.
- A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.
- A reinforced section of the bow of a warship, intended to be used for ramming other ships.
- A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.
- An act of ramming.
- A weight which strikes a blow, in a ramming device such as a pile driver, steam hammer, or stamp mill.
Plural rams
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He flew around with a great whir of his wings and settled upon a large ram, with the intention of carrying him off, but his claws became entangled in the ram’s fleece and he was not able to release himself, although he fluttered with his feathers as much as he could.
Stir a whisker, Lungri, and I ram the Red Flower down thy gullet!” He beat Shere Khan over the head with the branch, and the tiger whimpered and whined in an agony of fear.
If you can imagine a lance, or a battering ram, or a hammer weighing nearly half a ton driven by a cool, quiet mind living in the handle of it, you can roughly imagine what Kaa was like when he fought.
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