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BATTERING RAM

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Dictionary entry overview: What does battering ram mean?

• BATTERING RAM (noun)
The noun BATTERING RAM has 1 sense:

1. a ram used to break down doors of fortified buildings

Familiarity information: BATTERING RAM used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• BATTERING RAM (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A ram used to break down doors of fortified buildings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("battering ram" is a kind of...):

ram (a tool for driving or forcing something by impact)

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