¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rammers
1. rammer [n] - See also: rammer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rammers
Literary usage of Rammers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"Rammers for Light Work.—A form of pneumatic rammer for light work is shown in
... This form is provided with two rammers d and e, one at each end f and g of ..."
2. General Foundry Practice by Andrew McWilliam, Percy Longmuir (1907)
"Double - ended pegging rammers may be used, the two ends being of different size.
... Flat rammers, such as В in fig. 7, are employed for the final ramming. ..."
3. A Treatise on Concrete, Plain and Reinforced: Materials, Construction, and by Frederick Winslow Taylor, Sanford Eleazer Thompson (1905)
"Rammers for wedging the stones together and forcing the finer Dry Concrete. ...
The style of rammers ordinarily used for dry mixed or medium concrete are ..."
4. U. S. Infantry Tactics: For the Instruction, Exercise, and Manœuvres of the by United States War Dept (1863)
"... to loosen the rammers; the front rank man of every odd file will facilitate
the disengagement of the rammers, if necessary, by drawing them out slightly ..."
5. The Metropolitan (1834)
"... his cannisters of sugar and gunpowder (tea), and the spooney spoons, instead
of the truculent rammers, equally good at driving home wad and shot, ..."
6. A Military Dictionary: Or, Explaination of the Several Systems of Discipline by William Duane (1810)
"... rammers, and ( ladles, in sets . . 20 Tools to work in trenches . 40003 SIENS,
Fr. The plural of sien, bis, trr't or one's own. ..."
7. A Treatise on Chemistry Applied to the Manufacture of Soap and Candles by Campbell Morfit (1856)
"This series of rammers, shown at E, is formed of separate hollow tubes, supported
in the cross-piece gg, each of which tubes is provided with a small spring ..."
8. Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War: North and South : 1860-1865 by Frank Moore (1866)
"... With decks afloat, and powder gone, The last broadside we gave From the guns'
heated iron lips Burst out beneath the wave. So sponges, rammers ..."
Other Resources:
