Complete Definition of "battering ram"

English

Etymology
The heads of some battering rams were carved in the shape of a ram, an animal renowned for butting with its head.

Noun
battering ram (plural battering rams)

  1. (also ram) A heavy object used for battering down walls before gunpowder was known in Europe.
  2. heraldry This object borne as a charge in a coat of arms.

Translations
trans-top|heavy object
Dutch: stormram m
Finnish: muurinmurtaja
Icelandic: múrbrjótur m
trans-mid
German: Sturmbock m
Russian: �а�ан (tarán) m
trans-bottom

References
R:Heraldry 1862

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