settings
Anna Karenina vocabulary
488 vocabulary words, including people, places, music, artists, etc.
help & settings
[x]
-
ramrod
-
synonyms: scouring stick ???
► definition
Definition:The rod used in ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
photo: by Daderot, CC0
► uses
Uses:
Levin took out a ramrod and began sketching him the staircase in the dust.
---
Just as the " Old Dessauer " foresaw the advantage which the iron ramrod would give to the Prussian infantry, and as Wellington perceived that improved firearms would render possible the extended lines he adopted, so may the great generals of the future learn those lessons which are only brought home to others through the dire ordeal of battle.
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
---
a soldier in a peaked cap and blue overcoat, lit up by the fire, was kneeling beside it stirring its contents with a ramrod.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 14 (Book Fourteen)
---
Creighton stood ramrod straight, the tears still running down his own cheeks. He saluted.
Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
help with search