battering-ramn.

Etymology: < battering n. + ram n.¹ Compare Latin aries ram, battering-ram.

1. An ancient military engine employed for battering down walls, consisting of a beam of wood, with a mass of iron at one end, sometimes in the form of a ram's head; (also figurative).

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1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. iv. 2 Set battering rams against it round about [cf. Coverdale Ezek. xxi. 22 Batell-rammes] .

1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xiv. 330 The battering-rams had shaken the walls in several places.

1818 J. Bentham Church-of-Englandism 55 In the hands of Lancaster..the Bible..worked as a battering-ram against the Established Church.

1840 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VII. lix. 344 Battering-rams, each 150 feet long.

2. transferred. A blacksmith's hammer suspended and worked horizontally.

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1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	battering-ram
释义	battering-ramn. Etymology: < battering n. + ram n.¹ Compare Latin aries ram, battering-ram. 1. An ancient military engine employed for battering down walls, consisting of a beam of wood, with a mass of iron at one end, sometimes in the form of a ram's head; (also figurative). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > engine of war > [noun] > battering-ram rameOE wether14.. bowstowrec1425 rammera1460 montonc1515 battle-ram1535 horse1601 battering-ram1611 ram-engine1632 battering-engine1774 battering-machine1774 1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. iv. 2 Set battering rams against it round about [cf. Coverdale Ezek. xxi. 22 Batell-rammes] . View more context for this quotation 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xiv. 330 The battering-rams had shaken the walls in several places. 1818 J. Bentham Church-of-Englandism 55 In the hands of Lancaster..the Bible..worked as a battering-ram against the Established Church. 1840 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VII. lix. 344 Battering-rams, each 150 feet long. 2. transferred. A blacksmith's hammer suspended and worked horizontally. ΚΠ 1864 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1611
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