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Ram's horn   /ræmz hɔrn/   Listen
noun
Ram  n.  
1.
The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.
2.
(Astron.)
(a)
Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March.
(b)
The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name.
3.
An engine of war used for butting or battering. Specifically:
(a)
In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering-ram.
(b)
A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak.
4.
A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.
5.
The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.
6.
The plunger of a hydraulic press.
Ram's horn.
(a)
(Fort.) A low semicircular work situated in and commanding a ditch. (Written also ramshorn)
(b)
(Paleon.) An ammonite.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Ram's horn" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Aldgate, in London, a very fine specimen of the Shophar or Ram's Horn is blown on New Year's Day, and ...
— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various
... it," said the Hetman crossly. "This is not roast; it is ram's horn. Really Koukou is beginning to ...
— Atlantida • Pierre Benoit
... a ram's horn, Sing ivy, sing ivy; And sowed it all over with one peppercorn. Sing holly, go ...
— A Nonsense Anthology • Collected by Carolyn Wells
... features of the map I should say about two hundred miles. They say the river's as crooked as a ram's horn." ...
— The Woman from Outside - [on Swan River] • Hulbert Footner
... hideously ugly. He hasn't even the signs of a moustache or beard or eyebrows. Not because he shaved. God forbid, but simply because they would not grow. But for that again he had a pair of lips and a nose. Oh, what a nose! It was curved like a ram's horn. And he had a voice like a bull. He growled like a lion. Where did such a creature get such a terrible roar? And where did he get so much strength? When he took hold of you by the hand with his cold, bony fingers, you saw the next world. When he boxed your ears, you felt ...
— Jewish Children • Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich


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