Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
RAMMING
RAM
force, drive, ram
(verb) force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; “She rammed her mind into focus”; “He drives me mad”
jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad
(verb) crowd or pack to capacity; “the theater was jampacked”
crash, ram
(verb) undergo damage or destruction on impact; “the plane crashed into the ocean”; “The car crashed into the lamp post”
ram, ram down, pound
(verb) strike or drive against with a heavy impact; “ram the gate with a sledgehammer”; “pound on the door”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
ramming
present participle of ram
Noun
ramming (plural rammings)
A collision, where something is rammed.
Source: Wiktionary
RAM
Ram, n. Etym: [AS. ramm, ram; akin to OHG. & D. ram, Prov. G. ramm, and perh. to Icel. ramr strong.]
1. The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.
2. (Astron.) (a) Aries, the sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of March. (b) The constellation Aries, which does not now, as formerly, occupy the sign of the same name.
3. An engine of war used for butting or battering. Specifically: (a) In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering- ram. (b) A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak.
4. A hydraulic ram. See under Hydraulic.
5. The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.
6. The plunger of a hydraulic press. Ram's horn. (a) (Fort.) A low semicircular work situated in and commanding a ditch. [Written also ramshorn.] Farrow. (b) (Paleon.) An ammonite.
Ram, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rammed; p. pr. & vb. n. Ramming.]
1. To butt or strike against; to drive a ram against or through; to thrust or drive with violence; to force in; to drive together; to cram; as, to ram an enemy's vessel; to ram piles, cartridges, etc. [They] rammed me in with foul shirts, and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins. Shak.
2. To fill or compact by pounding or driving. A ditch . . . was filled with some sound materials, and rammed to make the foundation solid. Arbuthnot.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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