battering ram

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   a ram used to break down doors of fortified buildings

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Questions about battering ram

What does battering ram mean?

battering ram means "a ram used to break down doors of fortified buildings".

Is battering ram a common word?

battering ram is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.