rammer

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

RAM'MER, noun 1. One that rams or drives. 2. An instrument for driving any thing with force; as a rammer for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity. 3. A gun-stick; a ramrod; a rod for forcing down the charge of a gun.
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