rammedadj.
/ramd/, U.S. /ræmd/ 1. Forced in; beaten hard; (of earth, etc.) compacted by ramming.
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society > occupation and work > industry > earth-moving, etc. > [adjective] > other specific processes
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pick and gad1881
bulldozed1936
bulldozered1952
back-filled1960
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > [adjective] > forcibly
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adacted1623
inthrust1658
injected1741
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [adjective] > loaded > rammed
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1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 51 With ramd cramd garbadge, theire gorges draftye be gulled.
1617 J. Vicars tr. F. Herring Mischeefes Mysterie 29 Her wals with rammed ruptures rent and torne.
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso i. xc. 181 A musket loaded with ram'd bullets.
1708 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 26 263 Imprison'd Air..was contain'd in the Interstices of the Ramm'd Ashes.
1755 J. Muller Treat. Pract. Part Fortification iii. xv. 202 The interval is filled with rammed clay as before.
1772 L. de Saint Pierre Art of planting & cultivating Vine v. 311 The vacant space of ground..must be filled with rammed earth.
1859 R. Thompson Gardener's Assistant 677 The roots do not penetrate through the rammed chalk.
1894 R. Kipling Jungle Bk. xii Machua Appa had no need to look twice at the clearing..or to scratch with his toe in the packed, rammed earth.
1924 A. J. Allmand & H. J. T. Ellingham Princ. Appl. Electrochem. (ed. 2) xxii. 550 The hearth is of rammed carbon, in which is embedded a water-cooled iron grid.
1957 Times 26 Apr. 9/1 There is a thick stratum of cultural remains and relics..and a rammed earth city wall.
2006 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 15 July r3 (Review section) An interpretative centre with a monumental wall constructed of rammed earth is partly submerged to allow the desert landscape to crawl over the building's green roof.
2. British colloquial. Of a venue, concert, etc.: full of people, crowded. Cf. packed adj.1 2.
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1992 Q Feb. 47/3 If the concert's ‘rammed’..like Bryan Adams at the Arena, the tout would be looking to sell a ticket for £40.
1992 DJ 26 Nov. 12/2 The club rammed, the atmosphere rich with whooping, enthusiastic, sweating, party people.
1997 J. Brook in S. Champion Disco Biscuits 126 ‘Have you been down there this week?’‘No.’‘It is fucking rammed. The place is packed.’
2007 Observer 16 Dec. (Food Monthly Suppl.) 7/2 My dear, 6pm on a Friday night and it was rammed! Busier than any It bar I've swung by in an awful long time.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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