2. Adjective. (colloquial) Filled to capacity with people. ¹
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Definition of Rammed
1. ram [v] - See also: ram
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rammed
Literary usage of Rammed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wedding's Basic Bessemer Process by Hermann Wedding, Ernst Prochaska, William Battle Phillips (1891)
"The basic material made up with tar is rammed with heated iron rammers in the
... The material is put down in very thin layers, which are rammed down until ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... the concrete is then shot into the enclosed space from a height of about 10
ft., and rammed down in layers about i ft. thick; it soon consolidates into ..."
3. A Dictionary of Mechanical Science, Arts, Manufactures, and Miscellaneous by Alexander Jamieson (1829)
"Sponge your Gun, The sponge is to be rammed down to the bottom of the chamber,
and then twisted round, to extinguish effectually any remains of fire ..."
4. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Gibson Lockhart (1837)
"... I took the opportunity of even poor twenty-four hours and packed it full of
hard-rammed snow—but lo, ye—the snow is now in ..."
5. A Treatise on Masonry Construction by Ira Osborn Baker (1914)
"Assume the aggregate to be broken stone, unscreened except to remove the dust,
containing 33 per cent of voids when loose and 28 when rammed (see No. ..."
6. Foundry Practice: A Treatise on Molding and Casting in Their Various Details by James Murray Tate, Melvin Oscar Stone (1904)
"A coke bed is formed around it with the vent pipes leading to the surface.
Sand is filled in and rammed to a level shown Fig. 72. by line M'N, Fig. 73. ..."
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