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RAM

Volume 9 · 62 words · 1778 Edition

in zoology. See Ovis.

**Battering RAM**, in antiquity, a military engine used to batter down the walls of besieged places. See BATTERING RAM.

**RAM's Head**, in a ship, is a great block belonging to the fore and main halliards. It has three shives in it, in which the halliards are put; and in a hole at the end are reved the ties.