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Definition: Ramrod |
RamrodNoun1. A rod used to ram the charge into a muzzle-loading firearm. 2. A harshly demanding overseer. 3. A rod used to clean the barrel of a firearm. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ramrod" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a ramrod, denotes unfortunate adventures. You will have cause for grief. For a young woman to see one bent or broken, foretells that a dear friend or lover will fail her. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Occupations | Supervises and coordinates activities of a group of COWPUNCHERS (agriculture) (colloquially called screws or waddies) riding after cattle on open range. Performs other duties as described under SUPERVISOR (any industry) Master Title. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Stopper | Noun: stopper, stopple; plug, cork, bung, spike, spill, tap; rammer; ram, ramrod; piston; stop-gap; wadding, stuffing, padding, stopping, dossil, pledget, tompion, tourniquet. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ramrod |
| English words defined with "ramrod": ball ♦ Gunstick ♦ musket ball. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Ramrod (1947) | |
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| "Ramrod" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.44% of the time. "Ramrod" is used about 18 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.44% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.56% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 18 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ramrod": as stiff as a ramrod ♦ ramrod straight. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "ramrod": ramrod-straight. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ramrod | 102 |
dodge ramrod | 28 |
roger ramrod | 13 |
ramrod key | 7 |
rodger ramrod | 6 |
boston ramrod | 5 |
ramrod taskmaster | 3 |
gay ramrod | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ramrod"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | thupër (bar, birch, cane, drumstick, fiddlestick, rod, stick, wand, withy), harbi. (various references) | |
Arabic | مدك البندقية, قضيب تنظيف البندقية, صلب (adamant, aguish, callosity, callous, cast iron, concrete, consolidate, corneous, cross oneself, crucifixion, crucify, cruel, firm, harden, horny, inflexible, loin, metallic, out and out, persistent, resistant, rigid, robust, sear, solid, solidary, stabile, stark, stiff, stiffen, stubborn, temper, tenacious, tough, unkind, unyielding), صارم (astringent, austere, disciplinary, dour, driving, exact, extreme, fast, firm, hard, hard and fast, hardheaded, inclement, puritan, rigid, rigorous, rugged, searching, severe, sharp, stark, stern, stiff, strait, strict, stringent, swingeing, tight, tough, unrelenting, violent). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | строг човек, шомпол (drift, rammer), непреклонен човек, налагам (enforce, enjoin, force, force upon, hammer, inculcate, indicate, inflict, levy, necessitate, predicate, punish, superimpose, thrust, thrust on, towel, wallop), бия (bang, beat, chime, club, curry, feeze, go, hammer, hide, hit, kill, knoll, lace, lather, lay, lick, maul, palpitate, peal, pelt, pulsate, pulse, ram, ring, rough up, shoot, strike, swingle, thrash, thresh, wallop, welt, whale, whip, whop, zap), дотиквач. (various references) | |
Chinese | 推弹杆. (various references) | |
Farsi | میل (Bar, Delight, Desire, Goo, List, Perch, Rod, Stanchion, Stomach, Streak, Tendency, Turquoise, Will, Zest), سیخ (Broach, Erect, Gad, Goad, Grid, Spur, Stiff, Wooden), سنبه تفنگ یاتوپ , سنبه (Piston), خم شدنی . (various references) | |
French | refouloir, baguette. (various references) | |
German | Ladestock (charging rod, stemmer, stemming rod, tamping bar, tamping block, tamping pole, tamping stick). (various references) | |
Greek | βέργα όπλου. (various references) | |
Hungarian | puskavessző. (various references) | |
Italian | bacchetta (baton, ferule, pointer, rod, stick, wand). (various references) | |
Manx | slat ghunn (cleaning rod). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | amrodray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vareta (busk, drumstick, fish rod, rod, stick). (various references) | |
Romanian | vergea de armã. (various references) | |
Russian | шомпол (rammer). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nabijač (rammer), šipka za pušku. (various references) | |
Spanish | baqueta (rammer). (various references) | |
Swedish | laddstake. (various references) | |
Turkish | harbi. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шомпол (rammer, wiping-rod). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ramrod": ramrodded, ramrodding, ramrods. (additional references) | |
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"Ramrod" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Rabro, Ramcom, ramraid, ramrodded, randor, reprod, rimrod. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ramrod" (pronounced ra"mrÄ'd) |
| 3 | -r Ä' d | antifraud, Goldenrod. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-m-o-r-r" | |
-1 letter: ardor, armor. | |
-2 letters: dorm, dorr, dram, mora, orad, orra, road, roam, roar. | |
-3 letters: ado, arm, dam, dom, dor, mad, mar, moa, mod, mor, oar, ora, rad, ram, rod, rom. | |
-4 letters: ad, am, ar, do, ma, mo, od, om, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-m-o-r-r" | |
+1 letter: armored, mirador, ramrods. | |
+2 letters: airdrome, armoured, carromed, darkroom, marrowed, miradors, mortared, tramroad, wardroom. | |
+3 letters: aerodrome, airdromes, boardroom, broodmare, camcorder, comprador, comradery, darkrooms, deprogram, dromedary, forearmed, guardroom, madrepore, martyrdom, moderator, primordia, prodromal, programed, radiogram, ramrodded, tramroads, unarmored, wardrooms. | |
+4 letters: aerodromes, boardrooms, bombardier, broodmares, camcorders, cardiogram, compradore, compradors, dendrogram, deprograms, dreamworld, guardrooms, madrepores, madreporic, mandragora, martyrdoms, microfarad, moderators, nonadmirer, overwarmed, primordial, prodromata, programmed, promenader, radiograms, radiometer, radiometry, ramrodding, randomizer, rhabdomere, threadworm, warlordism. | |
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