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ram's head
Also ram's-head.
[f. ram n.1; cf. ram-head.]
1. a. Used attrib. to designate the ordinary chick-pea, Cicer arietinum. ? Obs.
1601Holland Pliny I. 570 There is a second kind named Columbinum... These are white, round, light, lesse than the former Rams-head ciches. 1866Treas. Bot. 957/2.
b. The American plant Cypripedium arietinum, a species of Lady's Slipper. (Treas. Bot. 1866.)
2.
†a. Naut. (See quot.) Obs. Cf. ram-head 2.
1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. ii. 7 The Ramshead is a great blocke wherein is three shiuers into which are passed the halyards, and at the end of it in a hole is reued the ties, and this is onely belonging to the fore and maine halyards.
b. (See quots.)
1944L. T. C. Rolt Narrow Boat 206 Ram's head, the boatman's name for the wooden rudder post of a narrow boat; usually it is bound with pipe-clayed Turk's-head knots, and occasionally decorated with a horse's tail. 1947S. Woolfitt Idle Women ii. 26 The tiller is called the ‘ram's head’ and is curved like a swan's neck towards the steerer. It is metal, on the motor, and is painted in sections with..red, white and blue. Ibid. Gloss. 222 Ram's Head, in the butty, the post at the top of the rudder, usually highly decorated with Turk's heads and/or horse-hair; in the motor, the steering column. 1976A. Hill Summer's End i. 12 The ram's head was part of the tiller, and by putting our hands to it we got the ‘feel’ of boat-steering.
†3. (See quots.) Obs. Cf. ram-head 3.
1611Cotgr., Louve de fer, a Rammes head; or, the (pinser-like) hook of a Crane, &c. 1727Boyer Dict. Royal II. s.v. Ram, Ram's Head, (an Iron Pincher to heave up great Stones with). |