ram
Other forms: rammed; rams; ramming
A male sheep or goat is called a ram. If you're a fan of reading your horoscope, you might notice that Aries, usually considered the first sign of the zodiac, is represented by a ram.
Another kind of ram is a "battering ram," a tool for forcing a heavy door open or breaking a hole in a wall. This kind of ram comes from the male sheep and his powerful horns — and so does the verb ram: "I watched the rams ram their heads into each other as they battled over territory." Some word experts think the word stems from the Old Norse rammr, "strong."
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uncastrated adult male sheep
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a tool for driving or forcing something by impacttypes:battering rama ram used to break down doors of fortified buildingsrammera tool for driving something with forcetype of:toolan implement used in the practice of a vocation
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strike or drive against with a heavy impact
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undergo damage or destruction on impact
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crowd or pack to capacity
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force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically
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