Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Noting a vessel on the stocks when all the frames are set upon the keel, the stem and stern-post put up, and the whole adjusted by the ram-line.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the frames, stem, and sternpost adjusted; -- said of a ship on the stocks.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having the
frames ,stem , andsternpost adjusted; — said of a ship on the stocks.
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Examples
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We keep hearing Dodd and Frank had ramed these guidelines.
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I mean look at the pass that was given to Patrick Kennedy after he ramed his car into a baricade in the Capitol.
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Mr Brown, ramed up corporation tax on small businesses while cutting it for larger firms !
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But very unhappily for us in the discharge of one of the cannon, the Ball not being properly ramed down one of them split and killd 2 men and wounded 7 more, upon which they were obliged to return.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 21 October 1775 1963
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"You ramed little bunt -- I mean you blamed little runt!" exclaimed
Frank Merriwell's Races Burt L. Standish 1905
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St. louis will get ramed every time they bend over.
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The devastating thing is all the amendments tucked into all these huge bills, some 1500 pages ramed through in a few day’s with poor equiped readers giving advice to our house and senate rep’s to vote on.
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