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Definition of Ramrod

1. Noun. A rod used to ram the charge into a muzzle-loading firearm.

2. Noun. A harshly demanding overseer.

3. Noun. A rod used to clean the barrel of a firearm.

Definition of Ramrod

1. n. The rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm.

Definition of Ramrod

1. Noun. Device used with early firearms to push the projectile up against the propellant. ¹

2. Noun. Ranch or trail foreman, usually the first or second person in charge. The person responsible for getting the work done. ¹

3. Noun. (military) A World War II code name for short range fighter and bomber attacks to destroy ground targets, similar to circus attacks. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To force. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ramrod

1. to supervise [v -RODDED, -RODDING, -RODS] - See also: supervise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ramrod

rampire rampired rampires rampiring rampole rampoles ramps ramps up rampsman rampsmen

ramraid ramraided ramraiding ramraidings ramraids ramrod (current term) ramrodded ramrodding ramrods rams

ramsbeckite ramscoop ramscoops ramshackle ramshorn ramshorns ramson ramsons ramstam ramsted

Literary usage of Ramrod

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Instructions to Young Sportsmen: In All that Relates to Guns and Shooting by Peter Hawker, William Trotter Porter (1846)
"THE ramrod, Which has a worm, on the same principle as the solid corkscrew, is the best to take hold of all kinds of wadding, and admits of a brass cap as ..."

2. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting by Peter Hawker (1826)
"THE ramrod, WHICH has a worm, on the same principle as the solid corkscrew, is the best to take hold of all kinds of wadding, and admits of a brass cap as ..."

3. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting. by Peter Hawker (1830)
"THE ramrod, Which has a worm, on the same principle as the solid corkscrew, is the best to take hold of all kinds of wadding, and admits of a brass cap as ..."

4. Instructions to Young Sportsmen in All that Relates to Guns and Shooting by Peter Hawker (1859)
"THE ramrod Should be made of extra thickness, that would last as long as the gun itself; and, by having an end to " ship and unship," would serve as a ..."

5. History of Rhode Island by Edward Peterson (1853)
"He was, when young, shot through the body, with an iron ramrod, ... This ramrod was shot through my body, when I was about twenty-one years old. ..."

6. History of Rhode Island by Edward Peterson (1853)
"He was, when young, shot through the body, with an iron ramrod, ... This ramrod was shot through my body, when I was about twenty.one years old. ..."

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