ram
English
/ɹæm/
noun
Definitions
- 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 piston powered by hydraulic pressure.
- A weight which strikes a blow, in a ramming device such as a pile driver, a steam hammer, a stamp mill.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English ram inherited from Old English ramm (ram) inherited from Proto-Germanic *rammaz (strong, overbearing, acrid, ram, rank).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*rammaz
Gloss
strong, overbearing, acrid, ram, rank
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Property
Kanji
強
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Bussard ramjet English
- horn English
- jet English
- line English
- packed English
- raid English
- ram-packed English
- ramjet English
- ramline English
- rammable English
- rammee English
- rammer English
- rammish English
- rammishness English
- rammy English
- ramraid English
- ramrod English
- ramroddy English
- ramshorn English
- ramskin English
- rod English
- skin English
- turbo-ramjet English
- turboramjet English
- raami Finnish
- ram Dutch, Flemish
- stormram Dutch, Flemish
- *rammaz Proto-Germanic
- kulram Swedish
- målram Swedish
- ram Swedish
- rama Swedish
- ramavtal Swedish
- rambeslut Swedish
- ramlag Swedish
- sängram Swedish
- textram Swedish
- ramm Old English
- ram Middle English
- rammysh Middle English
- ram Middle Dutch
- *ram Old Dutch
- rame Middle Low German
- *rom Old Frisian
- Rom Saterland Frisian