Bat·ter·ing-ram n.
 1. Mil. An engine used in ancient times to beat down the walls of besieged places.
 Note: ☞ It was a large beam, with a head of iron, which was sometimes made to resemble the head of a ram. It was suspended by ropes to a beam supported by posts, and so balanced as to swing backward and forward, and was impelled by men against the wall.
 2. A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally.

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 Battering-ram
    (Ezek. 4:2; 21:22), a military engine, consisting of a long beam
    of wood hung upon a frame, for making breaches in walls. The end
    of it which was brought against the wall was shaped like a ram's
    head.