Turning the handle dumped the charge, which then had to be packed with the rammer.
The rammer was a wooden cylinder about the same diameter and length as the shot.
These may be mashed with a stout hoe or shovel, or with a block like a pavier's rammer.
The bottom of the rammer consisted of three ridges, each 1-in.
She seized the rammer from the trodden grass, and hurried to the gunner's post.
Get out of the way quick, rammer, for the powder bags are being thrust in!
Overhead are suspended the Sponge, rammer, and Worm, for each gun.
"We'll mow 'em down," said No. 1, the sponger and rammer, a boy of twenty.
No. 1, the sponger and rammer, had been killed by a pistol-shot.
Your rammer must have a collar of brass, to prevent the wood from splitting.
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