n. The male of the sheep, Ovis aries, and other ovine quadrupeds; a tup. See cuts under Ovis and quadricornous.n. An instrument for battering, crushing, butting, or driving by impact.n. A solid pointed projection or beak jutting from the bow of a war-vessel, used both in ancient and in recent times for crushing in an enemy's vessel by being driven against it. See def. 2, and cut under embolon.n. The heavy weight of a pile-driving machine, which falls upon the head of the pile: same as monkey, 3.n. The piston in the large cylinder of a hydraulic press.n. A hooped spar used in ship-building for moving timbers by a jolting blow on the end.n. In metal-working, a steam-hammer used in forming a bloom.n. A steam ship of war armed at the prow below the water-line with a heavy metallic beak or spur, intended to destroy an enemy's ship by the force of collision.To strike with a ram; drive a ram or similar object against; batter: as, the two vessels tried to ram each other.To force in; drive down or together: as, to ram down a cartridge; to ram a charge; to ram piles into the earth.To fill or compact by pounding or driving.To stuff as if with a ram; cram.To beat or pound anything, in any of the transitive senses of ram.Strong; as a prefix, very: used as a prefix in ramshackle, rambustious, etc.Strong-scented; stinking: as, ram as a fox.n.