Crossword clues for rammer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rammer \Ram"mer\ (r[a^]m"m[~e]r), n. One who, or that which, rams or drives. Specifically:
An instrument for driving anything with force; as, a rammer for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity.
A rod for forcing down the charge of a gun; a ramrod.
(Founding) An implement for pounding the sand of a mold to render it compact.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A device used to ram; a ramrod. 2 One who rams.
WordNet
n. a tool for driving something with force
Usage examples of "rammer".
She knew that the large rammer fleet would soon be completed: extraordinarily armored kamikaze battleships to be crewed by Soldier compies.
As each rammer is completed, we can start loading it with its full robotic crew.
I insist on having a few humans on board the rammer fleet to make command decisionsa set of token officers, one human commander for every ten vessels.
At the end of the first rammer mission, if she survived, Tasia would regain command of a Manta cruiser, perhaps even a Juggernaut.
Only one rammer in ten is equipped with life support on the bridge, so be sure you get aboard the right ship.
As the rammer fleet cruised around the planet, suddenly the Soldier compies chittered to each other.
As her tiny holding cell propelled itself from the rammer toward one of the intimidating warglobes, Tasia pondered the depth of the trouble that the Terran Hanseatic League was in.
Tamblyn, responding to an ongoing hydrogue attack on a Hansa skymine at Qronha 3, led the sixty compy-crewed rammer ships.
Joining with Klikiss robots, they seized the rammer fleet for themselves and intended to use the ships against humanity.
Manta continued its search for signs of the rammer fleet, lifepods with the human captains, or even hydrogue wreckage.
Rammer, 3 is to receive the Shell from 5, lift and enter it, sabot first, into muzzle, fuze out, as soon as the Rammer is clear thereof.
The most important are the management of the rammer and sponge in loading and the handspikes in pointing.
Sponger and Loader together thrust it down smartly with the rammer, as in ordinary loading.
Rammer, enters it into the muzzle, and pushes the charge home steadily, until the mark on the Rammer handle shows the charge to be in place.
The mark on the Rammer handle is the best evidence that the charge is in place.