Usually means: Tool for breaking through doors.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. battering ram: Merriam-Webster
  2. battering ram: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. battering ram: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. battering ram: Collins English Dictionary
  5. battering ram: Vocabulary.com
  6. battering-ram: Wordnik
  7. battering ram: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. battering ram: Wiktionary
  9. battering ram: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. battering ram: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Battering-ram, battering ram: Dictionary.com
  12. Battering Ram (Iron Savior album), Battering Ram (Saxon album), Battering Ram (comics), Battering Ram, Battering ram: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Battering-ram: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. battering-ram: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. battering ram: Rhymezone
  16. Battering-ram: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. battering-ram: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. battering-ram, battering ram: FreeDictionary.org
  19. battering ram: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Battering-ram, battering ram: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. battering ram: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Battering-ram, battering ram: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Battering-ram, battering ram: Encyclopedia

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Battering-ram: Easton Bible
  2. Battering-ram: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. battering ram: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. battering ram: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (battering ram)

noun:  (historical) A heavy object used for battering down walls and gates or a siege engine that includes such an object.
noun:  A modern device, usually in the form of a metal bar with handles, chiefly used by police and firefighters to force open locked doors.
noun:  (figuratively) Something which acts as a powerful tool against something.

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