MEANING
A heavy beam or similar device driven repeatedly against a gate or wall to break it.
Use it for
breaching defenses; collective effort; repeated impactMake a barrier fail through accumulated blows, not a convenient single strike.
Words that belong together
- swing a battering ram
- covered battering ram
- ram a gate
On the page
The battering ram needed twelve people to move it.
They covered the battering ram with wet hides.
Each blow of the battering ram shook dust from the gatehouse ceiling.
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- battering ram
Usage notes
Primary category: fantasy. An established compound, not a casual descriptive phrase; historical rams could be suspended and protected by a frame. Noun: battering ram; plural battering rams.
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