What's the difference between crammer and rammer?

Crammer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an examination, or a pupil who is thus prepared.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Shortly after, Wheen was hauled back out of the counterculture and sent to a crammer to get to university.
  • (2) But then she took on Amis's wayward children (putting Martin through the crammer that sent him to Oxford and thence to his own success as a novelist); they moved to a large house outside London, Lemmons, and while Kingsley rose, wrote, had lunch, wrote again, drank, she found herself running a household of between eight and 12 people, including, after her brother and ailing mother moved in, "five men and one woman who didn't much like me".

Rammer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, rams or drives.
  • (n.) An instrument for driving anything with force; as, a rammer for driving stones or piles, or for beating the earth to more solidity
  • (n.) A rod for forcing down the charge of a gun; a ramrod
  • (n.) An implement for pounding the sand of a mold to render it compact.

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