Ram

ram, n. The male of the sheep and allied animals. (Astron.) Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about March 21st; the constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name. An engine of war, used for butting or battering; a battering-ram; a ves- Ram. sel, armed with a heavy beak for piercing and destroying other ve els machine for raising water by the momentum of the water of which a part is to be raised: see Hydraulic Ram. — v. t. [rammed (ramd), ramming.] To butt or strike against, like a ram; to thrust drive with violence; to fill or compact by pounding or driving?