ramrod

English

Etymology

ram +‎ rod

Pronunciation

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Noun

ramrod (plural ramrods)

1. (firearms) Device used with muzzleloaders to push the projectile up against the propellant.

   Synonym: gunstick

2. Ranch or trail foreman, usually the first or second person in charge. The person responsible for getting the work done.
3. (military) A World War II code name for short range fighter and bomber attacks to destroy ground targets, similar to circus attacks.
   • RAF Web - Air of Authority

     ... the squadron (No. 452) moved to Kenley in July 1941 and took part in the usual round of Circus, Rhubarb and Ramrod missions.

4. (slang) The penis.
   • Gina McQueen, Opposite Sex (page 78)

     Half a second after that, she had him totally pinned while he thrust at her crotch with his ramrod, going thud thud thud like a blind dog in a maze. Hitting everything but the entrance she craved.

Translations

device used with early firearms

• Arabic: مِدَكّ m (midakk)
• Belarusian: шо́мпал m (šómpal)
• Bulgarian: шо̀мпол m (šòmpol)
• Danish: ladestok c
• Finnish: latauspuikko
• French: baguette (fr) f
• German: Ladestock m, Ladstecke m, Ladstecken m, Ladstab m
• Greenlandic: immiit
• Hebrew: מַתְחֵב (he) m (matkhev), מָדוֹךְ (he) m (madokh)
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• Italian: bacchetta (it) f
• Kazakh: сүмбі (sümbı)
• Polish: sztępel m
• Russian: шо́мпол (ru) m (šómpol)
• Spanish: baqueta (es) f
• Swedish: laddstake c, laddstock (sv) c
• Turkish:

  Ottoman: تفنك چبوغی (tüfenk çubuğı)

• Ukrainian: шо́мпол m (šómpol)

ranch or trail foreman

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Verb

1. (transitive) To force.

   That new project manager is just the one to ramrod this through to completion.

Translations

to force

• Finnish: painaa (fi), puskea (fi)
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See also

• wad-hook, packing-worm – rod for extracting charge from the gun