(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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Ramrod
Definition:
(n.) The rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm.
Example Sentences:
(1) The following pesticides (herbicides) were studied--afalon, dimid, Lasso, patoran, propanide and Ramrod.
(2) According to investigators and legal documents, discussion of killing Afghan civilians began after the arrival of Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs at forward operating base Ramrod last November.
(3) Tang sat strangely rigid throughout our meeting, with his back ramrod straight and hands clasped tightly together.
(4) The intoxication with Ramrod during four months decreases that activity, whereas through prolongation of the intoxicating period the effect is reverse.
(5) Wearing a dark suit, Pistorius rose in the dock and stood ramrod straight, his hands folded in front of him, and showed little emotion as the judge read her final verdict.
(6) Instead, Golovkin was patient and methodical from the opening bell, controlling the action with his ramrod jab.
(7) In 1983 he was magnificent, both at Chichester and the Haymarket, as Alfred Redl in Osborne's A Patriot For Me: as a model soldier in Franz-Josef's Austro-Hungarian army blackmailed because of his homosexuality, Bates brought out the hero's ramrod-backed discipline and vulnerability.
(8) Ramrod proved to have the highest toxicity, followed by propanide, Lasso and afalon.
(9) The authors follow up the changes of the ATP-ase activity in the testes of albino rats under the influence of Ramrod and low-frequency vibrations, applied separately or in combination.
(10) He was taller than I expected - he was ramrod straight.
(11) The Fusarium solani acylamidase exhibited an optimum at pH 7.5 to 9.0 and was inactivated in 10 min at 50 C. The enzyme was not sensitive to methyl-carbamate or organophosphate insecticides, but the herbicide, Ramrod (N-isopropyl-2-chloroacetanilide), acted as a competitive inhibitor of acetanilide hydrolysis (K(i) = 0.167 mm).
(12) Two new selective media were prepared for the isolation of P. aeruginosa cultures from clinical material: RChZh medium with ramrod inhibitor and Zh medium including a selective complex (hydrazine sulfate, gramurin, ethonium, N-cetylpyridine chloride).
(13) Centuries of subjugating nature by draining marshes, felling forests and turning meandering rivers into ramrod-straight concrete tubes appears to be reaching its limit, as the population rises and the climate worsens.
(14) He stood ramrod with his hands folded in front of him.