different between ramier vs rammer

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French ramier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /????m?e?/, /??æm?e?/

Noun

ramier (plural ramiers)

1. Any of several Caribbean pigeons, but especially Columba squamosa

Anagrams

• marrie

French

Etymology

From Old French raim (“branch”) +? -ier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.mje/

Noun

ramier m (plural ramiers)

1. wood pigeon

Descendants

• ? English: ramier

Further reading

• “ramier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• amerri, arrime, arrimé, marier, mirera, rimera

English

Etymology

ram +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æm?(?)/
• Rhymes: -æm?(?)

Noun

rammer (plural rammers)

1. A device used to ram; a ramrod.
   • 1853, Charles Dickens, Household Words (volume 6, page 387)

     A "mooner," fond of staring into shop windows, or watching the labourers pulling up the pavement to inspect the gas-pipes, or listening stolidly to the dull "pech" of the paviour's rammer on the flags.

   • […] I put my waterproof over the muzzle of one gun, and made a sort of wigwam with two or three rammers that I found, and lay along the tail of another gun […]

2. One who rams.

Derived terms

• rammerman

Translations

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

rammer m or f

1. indefinite plural of ramme

Verb

rammer

1. present of ramme

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

rammer f

1. indefinite plural of ramme