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Battering-ram

Battering-ram Meaning & Definition
Battering-ram Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Battering-ram?

[n] a ram used to break down doors of fortified buildings

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Battering-ram In Webster's Dictionary

\Bat"ter*ing-ram`\, n. 1. (Mil.) An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places. Note: It was a large beam, with a head of iron, which was sometimes made to resemble the head of a ram. It was suspended by ropes to a beam supported by posts, and so balanced as to swing backward and forward, and was impelled by men against the wall. --Grose. 2. A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally.

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