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Ram's horn   /ræmz hɔrn/   Listen
noun
Ram  n.  
1.
The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.
2.
(Astron.)
(a)
Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.
(b)
The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name.
3.
An engine of war used for butting or battering. Specifically:
(a)
In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram.
(b)
A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak.
4.
A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.
5.
The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.
6.
The plunger of a hydraulic press.
Ram's horn.
(a)
(Fort.) A low semicircular work situated in and commanding a ditch. (Written also ramshorn)
(b)
(Paleon.) An ammonite.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Ram's horn" Quotes from Famous Books



... says: "Thy whittle seems to me both good and strange, John, reach it into my hand." John did so, and the youngling takes hold of it by the back near the point with his thumb and finger, and twists it till it is like a ram's horn. Then he gives it back to John and says: "Thy knife is now stranger than it was, John, but 'tis not of so much use as erst." All marvelled at this feat, all save the fool Surly John, who raises a great outcry that his knife is marred. But Hardcastle, whose head was now pretty much ...
— The Sundering Flood • William Morris
... they make the cornet which they blow of a ram's horn? In order that the Lord may remember the ram which was sacrificed instead of Isaac, and allow the merits of the patriarchs to weigh in favor of their descendants, as it is written in the Decalogue, 'Showing mercy to thousands of those who love me ...
— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and - Kabbala • Various
... shoulder-to-shoulder courage, bred of drill and discipline, he knew nothing and cared less. Hence, on the battle-field, he was more of a free lance than a machine. Who ever saw a Confederate line advancing that was not crooked as a ram's horn? Each ragged rebel yelling on his own hook and aligning on himself! But there is as much need of the machine-made soldier as of the self-reliant soldier, and the concentrated blow is always the most effective blow. The erratic effort of the ...
— Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War • G. F. R. Henderson
... of Aldgate, in London, a very fine specimen of the Shophar or Ram's Horn is blown on New Year's Day, and ...
— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various
... features of the map I should say about two hundred miles. They say the river's as crooked as a ram's horn." ...
— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner


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