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BATTERING-RAM

Definitions: BATTERING-RAM

BATTERING-RAM

Noun

1. A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally.

2. An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BATTERING-RAM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)



Specialty Definitions: BATTERING-RAM

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Bible

Battering-ram (Ezek. 4:2; 21:22), a military engine, consisting of a long beam of wood hung upon a frame, for making breaches in walls. The end of it which was brought against the wall was shaped like a ram's head. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: BATTERING-RAM

English words defined with "BATTERING-RAM": Arietation. (references)
Specialty definitions using "BATTERING-RAM": Engines. (references)

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Usage Frequency: BATTERING-RAM

"BATTERING-RAM" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BATTERING-RAM" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%6143,867

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: BATTERING-RAM

Language Translations for "BATTERING-RAM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

"击公羊. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

faltörő kos (battering ram). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

연타하 램. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

attering-rambay

   

Russian 

  

стенобитное орудие (battering ram), таран (battering ram, ram). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

murbräcka (battering ram). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BATTERING-RAM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-e-g-i-m-n-r-r-t-t"

-1 letter: arbitrament.

-3 letters: arbitrage, arbitrate, bargainer, bartering, battering, embarring, margarine, margarite, marginate, mattering, termagant.

-4 letters: aberrant, abetting, aerating, agminate, amaretti, amberina, animater, attainer, bargeman, berating, birretta, brattier, breaming, bregmata, emigrant, enigmata, gnattier, margarin, marinate, marriage, martinet, rearming, reattain, rebating, remating, retirant, tabering, treating, trimaran.

-5 letters: abating, agitate, ambient, amentia, amirate, anergia, angrier, animate, antbear, arbiter, arietta, armiger, arraign, arrange, bargain, barmier, barnier, barrage, barring, battier, batting, beaming, bearing, beating, betting, biretta, bittern, bringer, earring, gambier, garment, gateman, germina, gittern, grainer, granita, granite, granter, gratine, ingrate, intreat, iterant, magenta, magnate, manager, mangier, margent, mariner, marring, martian, marting, matting, megabar, megabit, metring, migrant, migrate, minaret, mintage, nametag, narrate, nattier, nitrate, ragtime, raiment, ramenta, rangier, rarebit, rattier, ratting, reaming, rearing, regatta, regmata, regrant, retrain, retting, tabaret, tamarin, tanager, tangier, tangram, tarring, tarting, teaming, tearing, tegmina, terming, terrain, tertian, trainer, trangam, trigram.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BATTERING-RAM


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 41 54 54 45 52 49 4E 47 2D 52 41 4D

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000001 01010100 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111 00101101 01010010 01000001 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#65 &#84 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#45 &#82 &#65 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0054 0054 0045 0052 0049 004E 0047 002D 0052 0041 004D

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36355454395243484115523547

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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