Ram

(noun.) uncastrated adult male sheep; 'a British term is `tup''.

(noun.) a tool for driving or forcing something by impact.

(verb.) strike or drive against with a heavy impact; 'ram the gate with a sledgehammer'; 'pound on the door'.

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• They won't overturn the Constitution with our friend Brooke's head for a battering ram. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• What if we got one, and used it as a battering-ram against the door? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• With this vessel and the ram Webb, which they had had for some time in the Red River, and two other steamers, they followed the Indianola. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The Ram collapsed with the collapse of the Fenian movement. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• That's what she did, said Joe, slowly clearing the fire between the lower bars with the poker, and looking at it; she Ram-paged out, Pip. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Equally well remembered is a dangerous encounter with a ram that attacked him while he was busily engaged digging out a bumblebee's nest near an orchard fence. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• She sot down, said Joe, and she got up, and she made a grab at Tickler, and she Ram-paged out. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Orders were shouted, but it was too late to save the giant propellers, and with a crash we rammed them. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Some were rammed by the rear ships of their own side. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Then as the Carthaginian rammed or swept alongside, this _corvus_, as it was called, could be let down and the boarders could swarm aboard him. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• They, however, require increased power and longer time to ram down the ball in loading, and the risk of bursting the gun is increased if the ball be not rammed close upon the powder. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• He saw his galleys rammed by the sharp prows of other galleys; his fighting-men shot down; his ships boarded. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I took with me six cows and two bulls alive, with as many ewes and rams, intending to carry them into my own country, and propagate the breed. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• In hydraulics there are rams, water closets, pumps, and turbine water wheels. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Against the walls he also moored ships in which towers and rams were erected. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Brass tubes can easily be bent by ramming full of sand, stopping the ends, and bending them over a curved surface. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• The space occupied by this rammer in the rear of the gun is less than one foot, with a possible ramming stroke of fifteen feet. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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