Battering RAM, in antiquity, a military engine used to
(A) "I tried (says M. de Querhoent) to raise some: they thrived wonderfully at first, but after a fortnight's confinement their long legs grew paralytic, and the birds could only crawl on their knees; at last they expired." Gmelin says, that having long fed one, he found it to be peevish and quarrelsome."
to batter down the walls of besieged places. See BARTERING RAM.
RAM'S HEAD, in a ship, is a great block belonging to the fore and main halyards. It has three staves in it, in which the halyards are put; and in a hole at the end are reeved the ties.