A rod used to ram the charge into a muzzle-loading firearm.

Roget 263: stopper, stopple; plug, cork, bung, spike, spill, stopcock, tap; rammer^†; ram, ramrod; piston; stop-gap; wadding, stuffing, padding, stopping, dossil^†, pledget^†, tompion^†, tourniquet.    cover etc. 223; valve, vent peg, spigot, slide valve.    janitor, doorkeeper, porter, warder, beadle, cerberus, ostiary^†.    ... show more

A harshly demanding overseer.

A rod used to clean the barrel of a firearm.