Noun
An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places.
A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally.
Source: Webster's dictionarybattering ram
A capped ram is a battering ram that has an accessory at the head (usually made of iron or steel and sometimes punningly shaped into the head and horns of an ovine ram ) to do more damage to a building. Source: Internet
A giant siege tower with a battering ram was constructed and moved laboriously up the completed ramp. Source: Internet
Ancient use Assyrian attack on a town with archers and a wheeled battering ram; Assyrian Relief, North-West Palace of Nimrud (room B, panel 18) ; 865–860 BC. Source: Internet
A well-known image of an Assyrian battering ram depicts how sophisticated attacking and defensive practices had become by the 9th century BC. Source: Internet
He is frequently used as a human battering ram for opening locked doors or breaking through walls. Source: Internet
Johnson claimed bailiffs were carrying a battering ram but did not use it because he let them in when they called around 9am last Saturday. Source: Internet