What is "ramrods"

Usage examples of "ramrods".

The Guards reloaded with grim speed, propping their ramrods against the hedge before levelling the heavy muskets and blasting at the smoke-obscured enemy.

He knew all the engines and must have worked them on well over a hundred ships - big liners, p-shifters, ramrods, even Khormon dredgers and Gallacellan ships.

My vocation in life is not to push ramrods through the filth that accumulates in the Halcyon Drift.

Did I care if it was Rothgar, or Alachakh, or Caradoc's thirty ramrods, or Johnny Socoro, or Eve Lapthorn?

But she was a tall ship, and I knew her well enough to visualise her lines and compare her to the ranks of ramrods, dirt-trackers and p-shifters which were parked closer to the tower.

Sharpe supposed the Marines used wooden ramrods because metal rods would rust at sea, then forgot the idle speculation as more enemy bullets thumped into the heavy timber of the waggons.

Some had forgotten to take their ramrods out of their musket barrels, but it did not matter.

The squad shouted insults, rattled their ramrods in hot barrels, and the captain knew there was no point in his own men startling the enemy until Piellot's men quit their entertainment.

Harper shouted to Palmer then, hearing the wooden ramrods of the Marines still rattling in barrels, he fired his volley gun.

The astonished Dragoons could hear the enemy ramrods rattling in their musket barrels.

Then the Brigade warriors were capping their weapons and firing again—he ground his teeth as he saw a few ramrods go flying out toward the enemy—and beginning the cumbersome task of loading once more.

They charged, while the militiamen fumbled with ramrods and percussion-caps.

Men poured out of the bastion towers before and behind him, shooting and wielding bayonet and rifle butt, shotguns and clubbed ramrods for the gunners.

But ramrods are very slow, and there's only one within twenty light-years of here.

There was a metallic rattle as ramrods thrust bullets hard down onto powder charges.