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Webster 1913 Edition
Ramrod
Ram′rodˊ
(răm′rŏdˊ)
, Noun.
The rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm.
Definition 2024
ramrod
ramrod
English
Noun
ramrod (plural ramrods)
- Device used with early firearms to push the projectile up against the propellant.
- Ranch or trail foreman, usually the first or second person in charge. The person responsible for getting the work done.
- (military) A World War II code name for short range fighter and bomber attacks to destroy ground targets, similar to circus attacks.
- RAF Web - Air of Authority
- ... the squadron (No. 452) moved to Kenley in July 1941 and took part in the usual round of Circus, Rhubarb and Ramrod missions.
- RAF Web - Air of Authority
- (slang) The ****.
- Gina McQueen, Opposite Sex (page 78)
- Half a second after that, she had him totally pinned while he thrust at her crotch with his ramrod, going thud thud thud like a blind dog in a maze. Hitting everything but the entrance she craved.
- Gina McQueen, Opposite Sex (page 78)
Translations
device used with early firearms
ranch or trail foreman
Verb
ramrod (third-person singular simple present ramrods, present participle ramrodding, simple past and past participle ramrodded)
- (transitive) To force.
- That new project manager is just the one to ramrod this through to completion.