Definitions for battering-ram

battering-ram battering ram

Battering-Ram is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 1053 anagrams from letters in battering-ram (-aabegimnrrtt).

Definitions for battering-ram

noun

  1. an ancient military device with a heavy horizontal ram for battering down walls, gates, etc.
  2. any of various similar devices, usually machine-powered, used in demolition, by police and firefighters to force entrance to a building, etc.

Origin of battering-ram

First recorded in 1605-15

Examples for battering-ram

He charged the cattle around him, driving them back like a battering ram.

One with a pistol strapped to his hip swings a battering ram into a door.

"Going to try a battering ram," said Tom, rather scared at the sight.

The tortoise of the battering ram was constructed in the same way.

Had I had anything to use as a battering ram, I would have begun on the door.

Again and again she flung herself at it like a battering ram.

Another was the battering ram for making breaches in the walls of fortresses.

Did you build your houses for destruction by fire, and your walls for the battering ram?

Tonight, he was a battering ram whenever anyone tried to interrupt him.

But, also, such pulse-pounding adventure is a battering ram against the central bulwark of a civilized society.

Word Value for battering-ram
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

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