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1. An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places. Note: It was a large beam, with a head of iron, which was sometimes made to resemble the head of a ram. It was suspended by ropes t a beam supported by posts, and so

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1. An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places. Note: It was a large beam, with a head of iron, which was sometimes made to resemble the head of a ram. It was suspended by ropes t a beam supported by posts, and so balanced as to swing backward and forward, and was impelled by men against the wall. Grose. 2. A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally.

Related words: (words related to BATTERING-RAM)

  • SUPPORTABLE
    Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
  • BESIEGER
    One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged.
  • SUPPORTATION
    Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
  • ENGINER
    A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines. Shak.
  • ENGINERY
    1. The act or art of managing engines, or artillery. Milton. 2. Engines, in general; instruments of war. Training his devilish enginery. Milton. 3. Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement. Shenstone.
  • SOMETIMES
    1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
  • SUPPORTFUL
    Abounding with support. Chapman.
  • TIMESERVING
    Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power.
  • SUPPORTLESS
    Having no support. Milton.
  • POSTSCRIPTED
    Having a postscript; added in a postscript. J. Q. Adams.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • BESIEGEMENT
    The act of besieging, or the state of being besieged. Golding.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • POSTSCAPULA
    The part of the scapula behind or below the spine, or mesoscapula.
  • ENGINEMAN
    A man who manages, or waits on, an engine.
  • LARGE-ACRED
    Possessing much land.
  • ENGINEER CORPS; CORPS OF ENGINEERS
    In the United States army, the Corps of Engineers, a corps of officers and enlisted men consisting of one band and three battalions of engineers commanded by a brigadier general, whose title is Chief of Engineers. It has charge of the construction
  • POSTSCRIBE
    To make a postscript. T. Adams.
  • SUSPEND
    To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action. To suspend payment , to cease paying debts or obligations; to fail; -- said of a merchant, a bank, etc. Syn. -- To hang; interrupt; delay; intermit; stay;
  • ANCIENTNESS
    The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.
  • AIR ENGINE
    An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. Knight.
  • BETIME; BETIMES
    1. In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early. To measure life learn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow. 2. In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with. He tires betimes
  • RADIANT ENGINE
    A semiradial engine. See Radial engine, above.
  • ENLARGEMENT
    1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
  • RADIAL ENGINE
    An engine, usually an internal-combustion engine of a certain type having several cylinders arranged radially like the spokes of a complete wheel. The semiradial engine has radiating cylinders on only one side of the crank shaft.
  • SEMIRADIAL ENGINE
    See ABOVE
  • FOOL-LARGESSE
    Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.
  • INSUPPORTABLE
    Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
  • UNSUPPORTABLE
    Insupportable; unendurable. -- Un`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Wilkins. -- Un`sup*port"a*bly, adv.

 

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