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ram
     1. n. A male sheep.
     2. n. A battering ram; a heavy object used for breaking through doors.
     3. n. A warship intended to sink other ships by ramming them.
     4. n. A piston powered by hydraulic pressure.
     5. n. A weight which strikes a blow, in a ramming device such as a pile driver, a steam hammer, a stamp mill.
     6. v. To intentionally collide with (a ship) with the intention of damaging or sinking it.
     7. v. To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement.
           After placing the cartridge in the musket, ram it down securely with the ramrod.
           
     8. v. To fill or compact by pounding or driving.
           Rammed earth walls
     9. v. (slang) To penetrate sexually.

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Example Sentences

And the Lord answered, and said: Take me a cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years. and a ram of three years, a turtle also, and a pigeon. 



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