What is another word for rams?

Pronunciation: [ɹˈamz] (IPA)

The word "rams" often refers to male sheep, but it also has several synonyms that can be used interchangeably. These include "tups," "bucks," and "ramsires." The term "tup" is commonly used in British English, while "buck" is more commonly used in North America. "Ramsires" is not as commonly used, but is still a recognized synonym. Other words that can be used to refer to male sheep include "stags," "bucks," and "ramsires." While these words may have slightly different connotations or be used more commonly in certain regions, they can all be used to mean the same thing.

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  • Forward Entailment

    • Noun, plural
      sheep, sheeps.
  • Reverse Entailment

    • Proper noun, singular
      ramiz, ramez.
  • Independent

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Usage examples for Rams

Besides the calendar it contains a list of county and other officials, dates of quarter sessions and assizes, fair days and markets, records of the prices obtained at the annual sales of rams or shorthorns on leading farms, and similar agricultural information.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
Each man has his own particular hostelry, where his father, and his grandfather, put up before him, and where he is expected to dine in the same old room, with the pictures of famous rams, that have fetched fabulous prices, framed against the walls, and ram's horns of exceptional size and peculiar curve fixed up above the mantelpiece.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
For it was the most sudden of phenomena, like the fight of two rams, as Shakespeare hath it.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke

Famous quotes with Rams

  • I may just add, that in addition to the hand-guns, I meet with other instruments of like kind mentioned in the reign of Elizabeth, namely, demy hags, or hag butts. They shot with these engines not only at butts and other dead marks, but also at birds and beasts, using sometimes bullets and sometimes half shots; but in the beginning of the seventeenth century the word artillery was used in a much more extensive sense, and comprehended long-bows, cross-bows, slur-bows, and stone-bows; also scorpions, rams, and catapults, which, the writer tells us, were formerly used; he then names the fire-arms as follows, cannons, basilisks, culverins, jakers, faulcons, minions, fowlers, chambers, harguebusses, calivers, petronils, pistols, and dags. "This," says he, "is the artillerie which is nowe in the most estimation, and they are divided into great ordinance, and into shot or guns," which proves that the use of fire-arms had then in great measure superseded the practice of archery.
    Joseph Strutt
  • Friends, wives and husbands, sons and daughters, dead Of plague, famine, and arrows: and the houses Battered unsafe by cannonades of stone Hurled in by the Assyrians: the town-walls Crumbling out of their masonry into mounds Of foolish earth, so smitten by the rams: The hunger-pangs, the thirst like swallowed lime Forcing them gulp green water maggot-quick That lurks in corners of dried cisterns: yea, Murders done for a drink of blood, and flesh Sodden of infants: and no hope alive Of rescue from this heat of prisoning anguish Until Assyrian swords drown it in death.
    Lascelles Abercrombie
  • the streams buck like rams in a tent whips crack and from the hills come the crookedly combed shadows of the shepherds. black eggs and fools' bells fall from the trees. thunder drums and kettledrums beat upon the ears of the donkeys. wings brush against flowers. fountains spring up in the eyes of the wild boar.
    Jean Arp
  • All struggles Are essentially Power struggles. Who will rule, Who will lead, Who will define, refine, confine, design, Who will dominate. All struggles Are essentially Power struggles, And most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.
    Octavia Butler

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