different between rammer vs ammer

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

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English *ambre, from Old English amore. Alternatively, it may be a clipping of yellowhammer or earlier yelambre. Favored over *hammer due to the influence of its German cognate and synonym Ammer (“bunting”) and its predecessors, Middle High German amer and Old High German amaro.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ??m?r, IPA^(key): /?æ.m?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æ.m?/

Noun

ammer (plural ammers)

1. The yellowhammer; yellow bunting; Emberiza citrinella.

References

• “ammer” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

ammer m or f

1. indefinite plural of amme

Verb

ammer

1. present of amme

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

ammer f

1. indefinite plural of amme