ramrod

English

Etymology

ram +‎ rod

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹæmɹɒd/

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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. (slang) An erect penis.
   • 2009, 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.

Derived terms

• ramrod straight/straight as a ramrod

Translations

device used with early firearms

• Arabic: مِدَكّ m (midakk)
• Belarusian: шо́мпал m (šómpal)
• Bulgarian: шо́мпол m (šómpol)
• Danish: ladestok c
• Finnish: latauspuikko (fi)
• French: baguette (fr) f
• German: Ladestock (de) m, Ladstecke m, Ladstecken m, Ladstab m
• Greenlandic: immiit
• Hebrew: מַתְחֵב (he) m (matkhev), מָדוֹךְ (he) m (madokh)
• Ingrian: rasseli
• Italian: bacchetta (it) f
• Kazakh: сүмбі (sümbı)
• Malay: pelantak, ramrud (obsolete)
• Polish: stempel (pl) m, sztępel m (archaic)
• Russian: шо́мпол (ru) m (šómpol)
• Southern Altai: сӱме (süme)
• Spanish: baqueta (es) f
• Swedish: laddstake c, laddstock (sv) c
• Ternate: farfuji
• Turkish:

  Ottoman: تفنك چبوغی (tüfenk çubuğı)

• Ukrainian: шо́мпол m (šómpol)

ranch or trail foreman

Verb

ramrod (third-person singular simple present ramrods, present participle ramrodding, simple past and past participle ramrodded)

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)

See also

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