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Battering ram   /bˈætərɪŋ ræm/   Listen
Battering ram

noun
1.
A ram used to break down doors of fortified buildings.






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"Battering ram" Quotes from Famous Books



... an advance in force from the Sieniava-Jaroslav front against the Przemysl-Lemberg railway, the most vulnerable point of the Russian line of retreat from the fortress. Fifteen bridges were accordingly erected over the San in that sector between May 20-24, 1915, across which the German battering ram was to advance on Przemysl. South of the town mounted patrols came into touch with Russian cavalry; four Austro-Hungarian and one German army corps were standing prepared between Dobromil and Sambor; Sambor was ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) - Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes • Francis J. Reynolds, Allen L. Churchill, and Francis Trevelyan

... I had time to teach you to think, but instead, you'll have to do as I tell you to do. I think you can probably make a battering ram out of water. You just—don't interrupt—find or make a long cylindrical container, fill it with water and quick-freeze ...
— No Moving Parts • Murray F. Yaco

... reason we have to stay cooped up, is it?" demanded Jack, as he turned to hunt around for some object which could be used for a battering ram so as to force the barricaded door ...
— The Banner Boy Scouts - Or, The Struggle for Leadership • George A. Warren

... and a pounding heart that nearly bore me down, it acted so like a battering ram on the inside, I drew a delicately scented envelope from my mailbox ... addressed ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp

... dickens, sir," cried the editor, "brings your big battering ram of a fist in contact with my door? Nature provides earthquakes in these parts without ...
— Grey Town - An Australian Story • Gerald Baldwin



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